Ústavní zřízení Slovanů v době přítomné
The Constitutional System of the Slavs in the present time

Author(s): Karel Kadlec
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Civil Society, Governance
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: The World War brought political emancipation to those Slavic nations that had until then been politically living in foreign states. The Poles succeeded in restoring their once rather large empire, the Czechs not only achieved their former independence for themselves, but were able to found a new Czechoslovak state together with the Slovaks, and the fate of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was no less favorable, as they united in the great Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Of the remaining Slavic monarchies that existed before the World War, only Bulgaria — the youngest state — retained its previous state form. On the other hand, Russia, the oldest Slavic empire, which alone preserved state continuity, experienced such radical political upheavals at the end of the World War that it completely went out of its previous tracks and to this day provides a picture of political conditions completely disorganized, the likes of which have never been seen before in the history of all mankind. It is all the more regrettable that the Russians, the largest Slavic nation, embarked on a world war not only in their own interests, but also in the interests of other Slavic nations, and now their name is actually erased from the history of Slavism. The former Russia forms only a part of the nationless Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. For this reason, the world war means not a plus for the Slavs as a whole, but rather a great minus. For there is no doubt that without a strong national Russia, the new Slavic states will not survive for a long time in their present form.

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