Nations Apart

Czech Nationalism and Authoritarian Welfare under Nazi Rule

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Nations Apart reconsiders the Nazi occupation of Bohemia and Moravia during World War II. The dismemberment of Czechoslovakia after the 1938 Munich Agreement is typically recalled in Czech historical memory as the beginning of a period of humiliation, occupation, and resistance. Against this narrative of victimhood, %Sustrová argues that the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia witnessed the unexpected expansion of the Czech welfare state, a process driven by local nationalisms and which, in turn, contributed, inadvertently to the stability of Nazi governance. Through extensive research in Czech, German, and Swiss archives, Nations Apart demonstrates that ethnically exclusive Czech national ideology dominated politics and everyday life during Nazi rule. Illustrating similarities between the wartime 'Protectorate' and the occupation regimes in Western Europe, %Sustrová sheds new light on occupied societies during WWII and on the ambiguous origins of welfare states in post-war Europe.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-02-15
Mått160 x 240 x 25 mm
Vikt912 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBritish Academy Monographs
Antal sidor384
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780197267639

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Radka %Sustrová is a lecturer in Social History at Charles University in Prague. She studied history and political science in Prague and Berlin. Her research focuses on the history of the welfare state, social justice, social and labour rights, women's activism, and nationalism in 20th-century central Europe. From 2020 to 2022, she was a British Academy Newton International Fellow and supervisor in history at the University of Cambridge. In 2022, she was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at the University of Vienna. Her further publications include three books, several edited volumes, and articles in English, German, and Czech.

List of IllustrationsList of TablesNote on the Text and TransliterationAbbreviationsMapsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1: Social Security during State-Building2: The 'Autumn Revolution' and the Reconstruction of the State and Society3: Community-Building through Authoritarian Welfare4: Towards Workfare Communities5: Health Care in Warfare6: Family Policies for Segregated NationsConclusionBibliographyIndex

This important work makes a major contribution to the history of the development of social welfare in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Through its careful analysis of the successive stages of Czech national, Nazi, and Communist welfare structures, it demonstrates the significant continuities of policies and of institutions that transcended the multiple changes of political regime in the Czech lands through the 1930s and 1940s. By doing so, %Sustrová's study demonstrates that the expansion of welfare systems of Europe, east and west, after 1945 was not the simple consequences of changes in political power. Instead, it was the product of the mid-century confluence of state ambitions, expert-led policies, and ideologies of social solidarity and of a national community.