Diferenciace narativů o československých legiích v orálně-historických rozhovorech s Rusy žijícími v Česku
Differentiation of narratives about Czechoslovak legions in oral-historical interviews with Russians living in the Czech Republic

Summary/Abstract: At the end of 2022, the research project „Czech Russians and crossroads of modern and contemporary history: biographical interviews“ was completed. The research took place over the course of approximately three years: from April 2020 to December 2022. Our research team was interested in the relationship of Czech Russians to key issues of modern Czech-­Russian history, among which the story of the Czechoslovak legions (1914–1918) was focused on in particular. Several dominant narratives emerged when discussing and interpreting this issue within the interviews conducted during the course of the research. At the same time, it was observed that the assessment of Czechoslovak legionnaires as historical actors is to some extent homogeneous and rather negative in nature. The authors will therefore consider whether this is mainly due to a specific post­-Soviet perspective of the narrators.

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