Published : 2015-12-30

Among the Habsburgs and Slavic Reich. The ratio of Czechs to the Austro-Hungarian state before the outbreak of World War I

Jan Wiśniewski



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The first months of the Great War in the area of Saint Wenceslas Crown countries showed that the Czech-German antagonism and tension on the Prague – Vienna line greatly deepened. The vast majority of Austrian Germans supported the military confrontation with the “Piedmont” South Slavs - Serbia. Czechs, who sympathized with the Serbs, Montenegrins and Russians, kept a mostly reserved attitude to the war despite the fear of the consequences the victory of the central powers would bring for their future political and economic position. Their political representatives mainly took the position of wait and see. The initial military victories of the central states and the efficiency of the Habsburg monarchy’s repressive apparatus dictated the need for cautious tactics, calculated for all possibilities and eventualities.

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Thomas G. Masaryk, World War I, Slavic Reich, the Habsburgs, the Czechs


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Wiśniewski, J. (2015). Among the Habsburgs and Slavic Reich. The ratio of Czechs to the Austro-Hungarian state before the outbreak of World War I. Fides, Ratio Et Patria. Studia Toruńskie, (3), 209–232. https://doi.org/10.56583/frp.1987

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