Cehoslovacia prezentată de František Kadeřábek
Czechoslovakia as Presented by František Kadeřábek

Summary/Abstract: The paper tries to collect the historical data on the Romanian–Czechoslovak relations, through the eyes of Czech Consul František Kadeřábek, and to analyse them in the attempt of creating a micro-monograph on the topic. This study is based on some documents preserved in the archives of the Brăila County, which present the realities and riches of Czechoslovakia in the early 1920s. At the centre of these actions was František Kadeřábek, the Czechoslovak consul from Galați. The Romanian-Czechoslovak relations became more intense after the Great War, because both peoples were building national states on the ruins of the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Between 1919–1921, Romania and Czechoslovakia established a complex system of diplomatic relations and organized a successful regional alliance together with Yugoslavia (the Little Entente). The economic relations between Romania and Czechoslovakia were not at the same level as those between Romania and the Great European Powers. This study aims at synthesizing the multitude of political and economic relationships that were created after the emergence of national states in Europe, as a result of the First World War and the collapse of multinational empires.

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