Konečná diagnóza druhé republiky?
The Final Diagnosis of the Second Republic?

Summary/Abstract: This is both a review of Jan Gebhart and Jan Kuklik's Druhd repuhlika 1938-1939: Svdr demokracie a totality v politickem, spolecenskem a kulturnim zivote (The Se¬cond Republic, 1938-39: A Conflict between Democracy and Totalitarianism in Political, Social, and Cultural Life), published by Paseka, Prague, in 2004, and an essay about the character of the political regime of the Second Republic. In the first part of the review-essay, the author introduces the main theses and contents of the individual chapters of Gebhart and Kuklik's book, criticizing some specific shortcomings, though on the whole he considers it a factually rich, well-informed synthesis of the history of the Second Republic, based on pre¬cisely marshalled sources. He disagrees, however, with the authors' interpreta¬tion of the Second Republic. In particular, he takes issue with their interpreta tion that the Second Republic represented primarily [...]

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