KULTURNÍ SPOLEK JAKO MINILABORATOŘ POLITICKÉHO STRANICTVÍ. BESEDA V HRADCI KRÁLOVÉ V LETECH 1872–1914
A CULTURAL ASSOCIATION AS A LABORATORY OF THE POLITICAL PARTISANSHIP. A DEBATE CLUB IN HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ IN 1872–1914

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with the link between the local and state-level Czech politics in a milieu of a cultural association in the Eastern Bohemian city of Hradec Králové in 1872–1914. It verifies the supposition that progressing social and political stratification of the Czech society influenced relations among the association members. Based on mostly association archival sources and historical periodicals, the author comes to conclusion that a political belief expressed by party preferences had a growing impact on the atmosphere and cooperation within the association. The Debate Club members defined themselves first against German nationality, later, under the mottos of progress and anticlerical fight, they provoked the secession of the catholic segment in the club. In the period before 1914, the cooperation within the club was complicated by the competition between Czech political parties that only expedited its decay.

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