Polish Socialists in the Czechoslovak Silesia in the interwar period – an example of a conflict of identities and loyalties in ethnically mixed border region Cover Image

Polští socialisté na československém Těšínsku v meziválečném období – příklad střetu identit a loajalit v národnostně smíšeném pohraničním regionu
Polish Socialists in the Czechoslovak Silesia in the interwar period – an example of a conflict of identities and loyalties in ethnically mixed border region

Author(s): Ivo Baran
Subject(s): Political history, Social history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: social democracy; ethnic minority; ethnic identity;

Summary/Abstract: The Polish socialists in the Teschen Silesia region were a part of the Galician Social Democracy in Austria-Hungary Empire before the year 1918. They were the Polish national-aware party and in the World War I supported central powers in their fight against Russia. The Polish socialists were ardent Poles and shared all the basic Polish conceptions regarding the Teschen area as a long-lasting Polish territory. The conclusion of the history of the Polish socialists in Czechoslovakia is that they were polish patriots at first and then anything else. Poles who supposed the socialist program as the most important became communists in 1921.

  • Issue Year: 33/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 103-121
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Czech
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