Czechoslovakia / Michael Brenner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brenner, Michael, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.

Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovakia--Politics and government.

Czechoslovakia--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Czechoslovakia--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992-from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, and invasion by the Soviet Union to, at last, democracy again.The common Western view of Czechoslovakia has been that of a small nation that was sacrificed at Munich in 1938 and betrayed to the Soviets in 1948, and which rebelled heroically against the repression of the Soviet Union during the Prague Spring of 1968. Mary Heimann dispels these myths and shows how intolerant nationalism and an unhelpful sense of victimhood led Czech and Slovak authorities to discriminate against minorities, compete with the Nazis to persecute Jews and Gypsies, and pave the way for the Communist police state. She also reveals Alexander Dubcek, held to be a national hero and standard-bearer for democracy, to be an unprincipled apparatchik. Well written, revisionist, and accessible, this groundbreaking book should become the standard history of Czechoslovakia for years to come.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

SPELLING, TRANSLATION AND PLACE NAMES

GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. BEFORE CZECHOSLOVAKIA

CHAPTER 2. THE INVENTION OF A STATE

CHAPTER 3. A TROUBLED DEMOCRACY

CHAPTER 4. THE FASCIST APPEAL

CHAPTER 5. A REPUBLIC AND A PROTECTORATE

CHAPTER 6. FROM NATIONAL CLEANSING TO COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP

CHAPTER 7. BUILDING THE SOCIALIST STATE

CHAPTER 8. THE BRATISLAVA AND PRAGUE SPRINGS

CHAPTER 9. BACK TO NORMAL

CHAPTER 10. FROM RESENTMENT TO REVOLUTION

CHAPTER 11. THE END OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-17915-4

OCLC:

1024009445