Authors of the article are members of the Ethnological Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and students of the department of Ethnology of the Philosophical Faculty, Charles University in Prague. It is based on the knowledge obtained in the course of the field research of multiethnic villages and towns with Czech minorities, realized in the year 1999 in Southern Ukraine. The research was focused mainly on the town Odessa and villages Bohemka, Veselinovka, Novhorodkivka, Alexandrovka and Lobanovo. Also Melitopol, Zoporoží and other localities are
mentioned. In the text, attention is given especially to the development of the ethnic composition of the inhabitants, their family life and family connections, sociál life and religious activities,
language communication and, partially, also to their folklóre and materiál culture. The researches arrived at a conclusion that in the times of „perestroika “ there was a rapid iníensification of the
interest in the origins of individual families, as well as a growing emphasis on the ethnical consciousness of the inhabitants, At the same time, manifestations of ethnic, minority and national
life in towns and in villages differ profoundly. The authors try to reveal reasons of this foct especially among the members of the Czech minority and to show what exactly do they perceive being base of their Czech identity.
Autoři považují antiklerikalismus za významnou součást evropských modernizačních procesů, zaměřených proti církvi a jejím institucím. Sledují jeho charakter a proměny od poloviny 19. století do konce první třetiny století dvacátého v habsburské monarchii a první Československé republice, a to s ohledem na rozdíly a specifika v různém ideovém a sociálním prostředí, ve městě a na venkově a také v českých krajanských komunitách ve Spojených státech. Jejich monografie podle recenzenta umožňuje vnímat český, protikatolicky zaměřený antiklerikalismus v evropském kontextu jako mnohovrstevnatý fenomén, který významně ovlivnil dobovou společnost a politiku. Pro komplexní uchopení tématu, inspirativní otázky, široký rozsah pramenů i literatury a kompaktnost výkladu ji rozhodně doporučuje zájemcům o dějiny českého myšlení i politiky v 19. a 20. století., The authors view anti-clericalism as an important part of European modernization processes aimed at the church and its institutions, They monitor its character and transformations since the mid-1880s until the end ot the first third of the 20th century in the Hapsburg Empire and the first Czechoslovak Republic, taking into account differences and specific features in various social and ideological environments, in towns and in the country, and also in Czech compatriot communities in the United States. According to the reviewer, their monograph Czech Anti-Clericalism: Sources, Topics and Forms of Czech Anti-Clericalism from 1848 to 1938 permits perceiving the Czech anti-Catholic anti-clericalism in the European context as a multi-layered phenomenon which had a significant impact on the society and politics of that period. Because of its comprehensive grasp of the topic, inspiring questions it asks, its broad selection of sources and publications it draws from, as well the compact explanations it provides, the book is definitely recommended to all who are interested in the history of the Czech thinking and politics in the 19th and 20th centuries., [autor recenze] Marek Šmíd., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy