The Historical Image of Hussitism as a Means of (Inter)nationalism in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 1921-1945
2021
Abstract
This article analyses party journals and archival documents to show how between the years 1921 and 1945 German and Czech Communists in Czechoslovakia perceived the medieval Hussite tradition. It then analyses the development of the Communist Party's politics of memory in a multi-ethnic state, which was required to adhere both to those of the Moscow headquarters and to local traditions.
The article is thus also a case study of the contradiction between nationalism and internationalism in the labour movement.