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Battle for the Castle This page intentionally left blank attle for the astle B C 1914 1948 The Myth of Czechoslovakia in Europe, – Andrea Orzoff 1 2009 3 OxfordUniversityPress,Inc.,publishesworksthatfurther OxfordUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellence inresearch,scholarship,andeducation. OxfordNewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright©2009byOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Orzoff,Andrea. Battleforthecastle:themythofCzechoslovakiainEurope,1914–1948/AndreaOrzoff. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN 978–0–19–536781–2 1. Propaganda—Czechoslovakia. 2. Politicalculture—Czechoslovakia. 3. Czechoslovakia—Relations. 4. Masaryk,T.G.(TomášGarrigue),1850–1937. 5. Beneš,Edvard,1884–1948. I. Title. JN2222.Z13P8562009 943.703’2–dc22 2008038396 Partsoftheworkappearedinslightlydifferentforminthefollowingarticles: AndreaOrzoff,“PragueP.E.N.andCulturalNationalism,1924–1938,” NationalitiesPapers29/2(2001):243–265. BypermissionofTaylor&Francis.http://www.informaworld.com. AndreaOrzoff,“‘TheLiteraryOrganofPolitics’:TomášMasarykandPoliticalJournalism, 1925–1929,”SlavicReview63,no.2(Summer2004):275–300. BypermissionoftheAmericanAssociationfortheAdvancementofSlavicStudies. AndreaOrzoff,“TheEmpirewithoutQualities:Austro-HungarianNewspapers andtheOutbreakofWarin1914,”inACalltoArms:Propaganda,PublicOpinion, andNewspapersintheGreatWar,ed.TroyR.E.Paddock©2004byTroyR.E.Paddock. ReproducedwithpermissionofGreenwoodPublishingGroup,Inc.,Westport,CT. AndreaOrzoff,“TheHusbandman:TomášMasaryk’sLeaderCultinInterwar Czechoslovakia,”AustriaHistoryYearbook39(2008). BypermissionofAustriaHistoryYearbookandtheCenterforAustrianStudies. 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper ParaIñigo, Samuel, yMateo,demicorazón. Graciasalavida,queme hadadotanto... This page intentionally left blank Historyismerehistory.Mythsarewhatmatter:they determinethetypeofhistoryacountryisboundtocreate andrepeat. —JorgeLuisBorges Amythisatthesametimeimperfectibleand unquestionable;timeorknowledgewillnotmakeit betterorworse. —RolandBarthes ...theFrenchfusssomuchaboutthenationbecauseitis alivingproblem,becameonewhentheysetthenationup asanideal,remainedonebecausetheyfoundtheycould notrealizetheideal.... Whenonegetsdowntofacts, thingsbecomeawkward. —EugenWeber This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Thisbookhasbeenalongtimeincoming,andIamgladtobeabletothank all who helped it along the way. Many institutions and organizations have graciously supported my writing and research: my thanks to the American CouncilofLearnedSocieties,theDeutscherAkademischerAustauschdienst, theInternationalResearchandExchangesBoard,theNationalEndowment fortheHumanities,NewMexicoStateUniversity,andStanfordUniversity. Passages in this book were adapted from articles appearing in the Aus- trian History Yearbook, Nationalities Papers, the Slavic Review, and in Troy Paddock, ed., A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers intheGreatWar.Ithankthesejournals,theUniversityofMinnesota’sCenter forAustrianStudies,TaylorandFrancis,andPraegerPressforpermissionto use this material. I also thank the two anonymous readers for Oxford for their thoughtful comments, and my remarkable editor, Susan Ferber, who patientlyguidedthemanuscriptanditsauthor.Ipresentedpartsofthisbook atColumbiaUniversity’sHarrimanInstitute,RutgersUniversity’sCenterfor EuropeanStudies,theYaleUniversityHistoryDepartment’sSlavicandEast EuropeanReadingGroup,andatseveralyearlyconventionsoftheAmerican
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