Abstract
The Velvet Revolution opened up the posibility of an objective assasment of the contribution of the Goll historical School and especially the long banned Josef Pekař. With an eye to the literature that has so far been published on Pekař.
The article looks in particular at questions of Pekař s historical understanding of the concept and interpretation of the Hussite movement, the reconstruction of the concept and message of the unfinished third volume of Pekař s Knika o Kosti", the interpretation of Pekař s political attitudes during the 1st Word War and especially his conception of constitutional issues, his understanding of the nation and the assotiated questions of his natinalism, attitude to the Germans and also his demonstrable anti-semitism.