Hostinská zařízení v boji za státní samostatnost Československa a při jejím vyhlášení
Slovenský Národopis. 2018;66(3):276-286 DOI 10.26363/SN.2018.3.02
Journal Title: Slovenský Národopis
ISSN: 1335-1303 (Print); 1339-9357 (Online)
Publisher: Sciendo
Society/Institution: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
LCC Subject Category: Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Anthropology: Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology
Country of publisher: Slovakia
Language of fulltext: English, Czech, Slovak
Full-text formats available: PDF
AUTHORS
Karel Altman
(Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., pracoviště Brno)
EDITORIAL INFORMATION
Time From Submission to Publication: 26 weeks
Abstract | Full Text
Pubs have long served as places of interpersonal communication, developed not only by by-passers, but mainly by regular houseguests. Such communication included political discussions and disputes, frequently on the position of the Czech nationality in Central Europe and its historical role in it. Disputes on this topic were strictly forbidden during World War I and would be conducted illegally; their content became gradually radicalised until it acquired a revolutionary character, directing the insurgent expressions of the debaters towards their active involvement in the attempts to achieve the leaving of Czech lands (together with Slovakia) from the Habsburg monarchy. This process culminated with the relatively spontaneous declaration of state independence at the end of October 1918, in which pubs played a special role as centres – though considerably restricted – of social life: from common pubs up to fancy club houses of the middle-class elite.