T. G. Masaryk: Against the Current, 1882-1914 by H Gordon Skilling

T. G. Masaryk: Against the Current, 1882-1914 by H Gordon Skilling

This study of T.G. Masaryk deals with his pre-1914 career as a professor and persistent dissenter. For three decades he was a constant and unrelenting critic of conventional wisdom, established institutions and customary practices in Bohemia and Austria-Hungary. At every stage he was a radical dissident in all questions of public life as well as in private matters: religion, the nationality problem the place of women, labour and the social question, parliament and government in the Monarchy, its foreign affairs and foreign policy institutions, education, the courts and legal system, the Catholic Church, and clericalism, the university establishment, Czech politics and Czech political parties, the interpretations of Czech history, and anti-semitism.

Skilling, H. Gordon: -

H. Gordon Skilling (1912-2001) studied at the University of Toronto (BA), Oxford (BA, MA), and the University of London School of Slavonic and East European Studies (PH D). He worked in Czechoslovakia from 1937 to 1939 as a commentator on North America for the Czechoslovak Radio Corporation. He taught at the universities of Manitoba and Wisconsin and at Dartmouth College and was Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto.

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ISBN 13	9781349133949
ISBN 10	1349133949
Title	T. G. Masaryk: Against the Current, 1882-1914
Author	H Gordon Skilling
Series	St Antony's Series
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	1994-01-01
Number of pages	248
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