Nástin vývoje českého pokrokářství
Portrayal of the Development of the Czech Progressive Movement

Summary/Abstract: The essay does not try to present a detailed history of the progressive movement, it rather outlines its development as a specific manifestation of the Czech national, constitutional, and at the beginning also social radicalism. It follows individual stages in internal differentiation of the movement, which influenced a considerable part of Czech middle class intellectuals and to a lesser degree those of the working class. It attempts to identify its connections to other parts of the Czech political system in the stormy period on nationalistic animosities, struggle for reforms in the Habsburg Monarchy and the development of modern political parties that were of mass nature, however of an interest type. Since the author recently published a number of relevant monograph studies, in this particular study he mostly summarizes findings obtained so far. The author presents a new interpretation of the biography of a cofounder of the progressive movement Antonín Hajn (1867–1949) as well, who was the main carrier of its tradition.

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