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The “Radecký Monument in Prague“, photogaph, end of the 19th century

Symbol of loyalty to the Habsburg Empire in Bohemia: The monument to the famous general and native Czech Joseph Graf Radetzky on the Lesser Town Ring in Prague. The monument only briefly outlived the collapse of the Empire in 1918, its symbolic character meaning that it was removed without delay.

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.
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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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    Hardening of the Fronts: The Czech Demand for the Bohemian Compromise

    The demand for autonomy for Bohemia was a core issue in the national movement, which by now had become a mass phenomenon. From the Czech perspective Bohemia was seen as a political nation with an emphatically Czech character – consciously suppressing the fact that this contradicted the ethnic concept of the nation: because “Bohemians” no longer existed; national agitation now applied only to Czechs and Germans.