Masaryk and Beneš and the creation of Czechoslovakia

a study in mentalities

William V. Wallace

pp. 71-85

in: T. G. Masaryk (1850–1937) III, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

Abstract

I have put forward elsewhere my views on the creation of Czechoslovakia.¹ I would not say tha:t it was inevitable; and certainly in 1914 it did not seem so. On the other hand, there were important developments that seemed to point towards the possible separation of at least the Czech Lands from a disintegrating Austria-Hungary. As the historian Jiří Kořalka put it, by 1914 "the Czechs were a nation without a state" .²

Cited authors

Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue

Beneš Edvard