This course examines the movement behind the development of the
Czechoslovak state from the ashes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the
emergence of the “First Republic” (1918-1938), during the Second World
War, as the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, and finally the federal
governmental structure that emerged in 1969. This course focuses both on
the essential characteristics of the Czechoslovak nation and the
differences which emerged in 1989 between the existing federal states --
which eventually led to the “velvet divorce” in 1993.
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