Project information
Re-emigration Czechs and Slovaks in 1918-1923
- Project Identification
- GAP410/12/0142
- Project Period
- 1/2012 - 12/2014
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Czech Science Foundation
- Standard Projects
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Education
- prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Vaculík, CSc.
- Keywords
- Re-emigration, Czechs and Slovaks, 1918-1923
For complex description of migration processes in the Czech lands it is necessary to clarify the position of re-
emigration of the Czechs and Slovaks after World War I. Re-emigration of prewar emigrants leaving between
1918-1923 should include only 200 thousand returnees. We emphasize not only the statistical aspect of the
problem, but the lighting information given from multiple contexts that involve sta in both directions of
the processes of re-emigration and emigration. The task will be to clarify the grounds of re-emigration in the
worsening economic conditions of the postwar period. The most crucial motives of the postwar comebacks
are the creation of an independent state of the Czechs and Slovaks, the land reform in Czechoslovakia,
the postwar economic crisis and bad living conditions in the defeated countries. The output of the project
will be non-impacted articles in refereed journals, presentations at international scientic conferences and a monograph issued by the Masaryk University.
Results
The project has filled in some gaps in our knowledge of the re-emigration and repatriation of Czechs and Slovaks from
abroad after the First World War. The main cause for the re-emigration of Czechs and Slovaks who lived abroad
before the war, particularly in the defeated states Germany and Austria and in Bolshevik Russia, were economic
reasons. The repatriation of people who went abroad as a result of the war, first and foremost those in the Austro-
Hungarian army who became prisoners of war, took place in parallel with this emigration. Many of them joined the
Czechoslovak Legions.
GA ČR Evaluation:The project has filled in some gaps in our knowledge of the re-emigration and repatriation of Czechs and Slovaks from
abroad after the First World War. The project has shown that the re-emigration and repatriation of Czechs and Slovaks
after the First World War were part of extensive migratory movements which took place in Europe as well as worldwide.
Publications
Total number of publications: 46
2013
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K REEMIGRACI A REPATRIACI ČECHŮ A SLOVÁKŮ ZE SPOJENÝCH STÁTŮ A Z RUSKA PO VELKÉ VÁLCE
Sborník prací PdF MU, řada společenských věd č. 27/2013/2, year: 2013, volume: 27/2013, edition: 2
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Masaryk i Ukrajina
Slavjanskij sbornik, year: 2013, volume: 11/2013, edition: 1
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Reemigracja ze Stanów Zjednoczonych do Czechoslowacji po I wojnie światowej
Jakość i warunki życia a procesy demograficzne w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w czasach nowożytnych, year: 2013, number of pages: 7 s.
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Uwagi w kwestii reemigracji i repatriacji do Republiky Czechoslowackiej po I. wojnie swiatowej
Człowiek idea dzieło, year: 2013
2012
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Memorandum Vaclava Girsy o pomošči ruskim i ukrajinskim emigrantam napravlennyj v Ligu Nacij
Russkaja akcija pomošči v Čechoslovakii, year: 2012, number of pages: 6 s.
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Otnošenije Masaryka k Ukrajině i ukrajinskim čecham
Šljachy rozetku kultury čechiv Ukrajiny, year: 2012, number of pages: 9 s.