Levicový radikalismus obyvatelstva německé národnosti na západě Čech v letech 1919–1920
The Leftist Radicalism of the German Nationals in West Bohemia during 1919–1920

Summary/Abstract: The post-war social situation in the newly established Czechoslovakia resulted in a strong upswing of leftist radicalism. However, it was not a sporadic, but rather a general phenomenon in Europe. The areas with mixed nationalities within the Czech lands, specifically areas with German national majorities, were affected more considerably. Partially, it was caused by national radicalism that integrated with social conditions, yet the immediate neighbourhood of Germany played a significant role as the leftist ideas were imported to mainly the western part of Czechoslovakia. The class war methods of the Spartacus League, radical and communist-oriented German social democrats, infiltrated easily from Bavaria and Saxony through the poorly guarded state frontier to the west of Czechoslovakia, primarily populated by German nationals where the league’s popularity increased. Under the complex economic, social, political, and national situation after the end of the war, the Spartacus League posed a great security threat in western Bohemia with a potential to produce a conflict with unpredictable consequences.

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