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František Kutnar and the Advancement of Modern Czech Historiography

František Kutnar and the Advancement of Modern Czech Historiography GEORGE SVOBODA (Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.) FRANTIŠEK KUTNAR AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF MODERN CZECH HISTORIOGRAPHY* When Frantisek Kutnar died in 1983, his death was almost unnoticed in professional publications.1 He belonged to a most incongruous generation of Czech historians born at the turn of the century whose fate was determined by their political attitudes and their personal responses to the rapid changes in the country. After the end of the World War II, and after February 1948 in particular, some of the most gifted historians of this generation were persecuted, totally silenced, physically liquidated, or forced to emigrate. Others adapted themselves to the new r6gime or wel- comed the Communist coup d'gtat and profited from it. Kutnar was among the few who skillfully reconciled their scholarly work and professional morals with the requirements of the rdgime without compromising their principles. Kutnar attempted to bridge two eras and two markedly differ- ent generations. He was a shy man whose obvious modesty con- cealed his ambitions, an aristocrat in conduct yet exalting in his work all the qualities of the underprivileged rural population, a political activist and thinker who rejected both capitalism and communism, and a historian who tried to combine http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png East Central Europe Brill

František Kutnar and the Advancement of Modern Czech Historiography

Svoboda, George
East Central Europe , Volume 16 (1-2): 145 – Jan 1, 1989
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© 1989 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0094-3037
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10.1163/187633089X00096
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GEORGE SVOBODA (Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.) FRANTIŠEK KUTNAR AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF MODERN CZECH HISTORIOGRAPHY* When Frantisek Kutnar died in 1983, his death was almost unnoticed in professional publications.1 He belonged to a most incongruous generation of Czech historians born at the turn of the century whose fate was determined by their political attitudes and their personal responses to the rapid changes in the country. After the end of the World War II, and after February 1948 in particular, some of the most gifted historians of this generation were persecuted, totally silenced, physically liquidated, or forced to emigrate. Others adapted themselves to the new r6gime or wel- comed the Communist coup d'gtat and profited from it. Kutnar was among the few who skillfully reconciled their scholarly work and professional morals with the requirements of the rdgime without compromising their principles. Kutnar attempted to bridge two eras and two markedly differ- ent generations. He was a shy man whose obvious modesty con- cealed his ambitions, an aristocrat in conduct yet exalting in his work all the qualities of the underprivileged rural population, a political activist and thinker who rejected both capitalism and communism, and a historian who tried to combine

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Published: Jan 1, 1989

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