Syllabus
1. Literature; beginning of cultural interest among Czech national activists 2.
The Baltistic at Charles university 3.The first contacts with Lithuanian and Latvian emmigration during the WWI 4. Process of de jure recognition of the Baltic states and establishment of diplomatic relations 5.-7.Development of bilateral relations during the 1920s and beginning of the 1930s 8.
The Russian market and penetration of Czech capital into the Baltics 9. Development of trade relations during the 1920s and 1930s 10.
Reaction to the coming of Nazism, negotiation on the Eastern pact 11. The Munich agreement and its influence on policy of the Baltic states 12.
Cultural relations in the inter-war period 13. Restoration of diplomatic relation in the beginning of the 1990s
Annotation
The course deals with the development of relations between Czech society and the Baltic nations.