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2. Geschichte als Argument. Das Böhmische Staatsrecht als politischer Leitbegriff im 19. Jahrhundert

Creator:
Osterkamp, Jana
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bez média and svazek
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model:article and TEXT
Subject:
Habsburg monarchy, Czech national movement, historic state rights, federalism, nationalism, and autonomy
Language:
Czech
Description:
Historical state rights are characteristics of a few empires. Legally, they drew on the tradition of former estates’ orders and contained privileges of estates or a County with regard to the Emperor. In the second half of the 19th century, however, this legal argument gave way for interpretations that were genuinely political. Historiography has often interpreted this shift as an exclusively nationalist one. Taking the Austrian Bohemian Lands and Czech nationalism as an example, this paper shows how the more complex the discourse was, in which history was transformed into political claims. In the realm of the Habsburg Monarchy, state rights legitimized so different ideas as feudal-estates’ orders, historic federalism or nation states. These political programs had conservative, national-liberal and even democratic implications combined with integrationist or separationist policies. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
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4. War as revolution of the self: The diaries of Vojtěch Berger

Creator:
Bryant, Chad
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bez média and svazek
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model:article and TEXT
Subject:
social democracy, Communism, Habsburg monarchy, Czechoslovakia, and diaries
Language:
Czech
Description:
This article draws upon the remarkable diaries of Vojtěch Berger to offer an original perspective on left-wing politics and the transformative effects of war, occupation, and violence in early twentieth-century Central Europe. Berger, a trained carpenter from southern Bohemia, began writing a diary at the turn of the century when he was a member of the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party in Vienna. He continued to write as he fought for the Habsburg monarchy during World War I; moved to Prague and joined the Communist Party; endured the Nazi occupation; and questioned the Communist Party, and his place in it, after liberation in 1945. Berger’s diary speaks to two constituencies that deserve more attention from historians: Czech-speaking veterans of World War I and rank-and-file members of the interwar Communist Party. The article argues that Berger’s politics, while informed by his experiences and framed by party ideologies and structures, obtained significance through relationships with like-minded “comrades”. Furthermore, the article examines how Berger used his diary to create political self-understanding, to fashion a political self. Each world war, the article concludes, threw this sense of self into disarray. Each world war also spurred Berger to reshape his political self, and with that to reconstitute his political beliefs, his public relationships, and his sense of belonging in the world. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
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