Czech and Slovak Experience : Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies. This item is unavailable.Czech and Slovak Experience : Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies

The Czech and Slovak Experience assembles essays by leading specialists from the USA, Canada, Britain and Czechoslovakia on key aspects of modern Czech and Slovak history: Joseph II's contribution to the development of the Czech national movement, the troubled relationship between Czechs and Slovaks as seen through Czech and Slovak eyes, Slovak linguistic separatism, the emergence of political democracy in post-Versailles Czechoslovakia, Masaryk as a religious heretic, Czechoslovakia's Germans and their treatment by the Czechoslovak government, and Prague's Jewish community after 1918.

This book contains essays by leading specialists from the USA, Canada, Britain and Czechoslavakia on key aspects of modern Czech and Slovak history which are of direct contemporary relevance. Essays include the tracing of the source of the Czech national movement to Josef II's encouragement of self-assertion by the Czech serfs, the importance of language in the emergence of Slovak national consciousness, and the ambivalent attitude of many Czech intellectuals to the Slovak's plight.