Sport in the Czech and Slovak Republics and the Former Czechoslovakia and the Challenge of Its Historiography

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ID11082191
AuthorsStefan Zwicker (University of Bonn, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume38
Issue3
Pages373-385
Publication date2011-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sport History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-1700 • E-ISSN: 2155-8450
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/jsporthistory.38.3.373
OpenAlexW1562727433
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

There are few European regions where sport and gymnastics were of such political importance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as in the former Czechoslovakia, which formed part of the Habsburg monarchy until 1918 and split into the Czech (the historical Bohemian lands) and Slovak Republics after the end of the Cold War. The Sokol (“Falcon”) gymnastic movement was of utmost importance to Czech national emancipation, but organized sport often had a political undertone among other nationalities, too. In the interwar period multi-ethnic Czechoslovakia was one of the leading states in European sport; after 1945, the Communist regime “reorganized” sport and used it as a means of propaganda. Until recently, publications on sport in the region were mainly descriptive in character; historians, both nationally and internationally, showing little interest in the subject. But this has changed, and interesting and fruitful research on different aspects of the subject has emerged over recent years

Communism · Czech · Economic history · Emancipation · Historiography · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Slovak · Subject (documents · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports and Physical Education Studies · Sports, Gender, and Society

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