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2008.
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| Summary/Abstract |
External forces are often seen as a source of the break-up of Czechoslovakia before World War II. This paper, however, argues that no less significant were the tensions between Czechs and Germans. One of the Czech thinkers who saw the fragility of Czechoslovakia was Emanuel Rádl. The author examines Rádl's concepts of nation and nationality, and introduces his idea of the contractual state. The author criticises certain incongruities in Rádl's theoretical suggestions. Nevertheless, she finds prescient Rádl's vision that the solution of the relation between Czechs and Germans would affect the entire Central European region.
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