Na Dálném východě. Sonda do každodennosti československých legií v Rusku

• Authors: Vacha Dalibor

Title variants

EN

IN THE FAR EAST. A PROBE INTO EVERYDAY LIFE OF CZECHOSLOVAK LEGIONNAIRES IN RUSSIA

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The essay focuses on Czechoslovak volunteer corps in Russia in the days after the end of World War I. The main aim of the text is to demonstrate the soldiers' perception of the Russian Far East regions. The introductory part discusses the existing sources and topics connected with the topic of everyday life in the war. The main part of the text outlines several factors connected with the soldiers' stay in the Russian Far East regions: the architecture, languages, and everyday life of local townsfolk or peasants (clothes, boarding, hygiene, festivities etc.) or the soldiers´ relationship with local women (including Japanese prostitutes in Vladivostok). It was businesspersons, rickshaws, acrobats and prostitutes, whom the Czechoslovak legionnaires used to meet, so those occupations are understood in the diaries and memories as to be typical for the corresponding region. Czechoslovaks also met a lot of Japanese soldiers whose regiments garrisoned in the Vladivostok and the Baikal regions. Some of the records show a great soldiers' interest in foreign destinations, cultures, and customs. However, it is not to be omitted that there was a war raging all around the Czechoslovak distinctive soldiers-tourists for the entire time of their exploring the Far East.

Keywords

EN

CZECHOSLOVAK LEGIONS; EVERYDAY LIFE; FAR EAST; RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 181-191
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vacha Dalibor

• Dalibor Vacha, Historicky ustav Filozoficke fakulty Jihoceske univerzity, Branisovska 31 a, 370 05 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA09823