Межнациональные отношения в Чехословацкой республике в начале 1920-х годов в освещении советских дипломатических документов
The Relations among the Nations in Czechoslovak Republic at the beginning of 1920s as elucidated in the Soviet Diplomatic Documents

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article investigates the relations among the ethnic groups in Czechoslovak Republic at the beginning of 1920s as they are elucidated in the documents of the mission of the Red Cross and the trade delegation of the Soviet Russia in Prague and the problems to which the Soviet diplomats paid special attention. The tense relations among Czechs, Bohemian Germans, Slovaks and Ruthenians can be seen in the dispatches of the leaders of the missions to People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR, in monthly reports and specials reviews of the Soviet missions. The Soviet diplomats laid the main blame for these conflicting relations on the Czechs’ nationalism and sometimes on the political elite of Czechoslovak Republic. The different attitudes of the Soviet diplomats to the conflicts of Czechs with Bohemian Germans, Slovaks and Ruthenians are considered in the documents in detail. In the case of Bohemian Germans the Soviet diplomats were interested in their reconciliation with Czechs and the hoped that they will participate in Czechoslovak government, but in the case of Slovakia and the Subcarpathian Ruthenia the Soviet diplomats especially interested in separatist movements. At the beginning of the 1920s Moscow was making an attemp to use the separatist movements in Slovakia and the Subcarpathian Ruthenia with the purpose of pressing the Czechoslovak government. In the conclusion of the article the author states that in the following years the Soviet diplomats were aiming at making up relations with the Bohemian German and the Slovak politicians who were the deputes of the National Assembly and the members of the Czechoslovak government. The Soviet diplomats’ goal was to use them for the development of the Soviet-Czechoslovak cooperation and recognition of the USSR.

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