La Tchécoslovaquie d’Avant-Munich 1918—1938
Pre-Munich Czechoslovakia 1918—1938

Author(s): Juri Křížek
Subject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Keywords: Munich negotiations 1938;
Summary/Abstract: A fundamental shift in research on the history of the pre-Munich Republic took place only after the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Red Army. The expulsion of the occupiers and traitors, the establishment of the new people's democratic order, the seizure of government power by the workers, all this created the conditions for historical research to embark on a completely new path. It was finally possible to proceed to the true and correct scientific interpretation of the birth of the pre-Munich Republic, its development and its fall. Of considerable importance there was the fact that the people's governmental power undertook the systematic establishment of the vast corresponding archival funds, gradually making them accessible and updating them. During the first years of people's democratic Czechoslovakia, the development of historical research was hampered by a marked lack of workers specialized in the most recent history, the terrorist measures of the occupiers having made their professional training impossible until 1945.

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