Abstract
The study inquires into Czech nation - building process in the long 19th century. It concentrates on the comparision with other European national movements in the books of the Czech historian Miroslav Hroch (Národy nejsou dílem náhody/Nations are not manifestations of the chance, 2009), American slavist D.
L. Cooper (Creating the Nation, 2010) and German historian Martin Schulze Wessel (Revolution und religiöser Dissens/ Revolution and religious dissent, 2011).