Czechoslovakia and Soviet Russia on the ruins of empires

Abstract

The book is a result of joint affords of historians, archivists and philologists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus and Russia. It deals with the end of the First World War, the collapse of empires and the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. Particular attention is paid to the inclusion of Subcarpathia in the new state. The problems of establishing and developing diplomatic contacts between Soviet Russia / The USSR and Czechoslovakia are also in the center of attention as well as the theory, ideology and practice of state building, the problems of interethnic relations within the new states, the history of Russian emigration in Czechoslovakia and refl ection of historical events in literature.For specialists in history and culture of Central Europe and Russia and all those interested in the events of the twentieth century.