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Jan Slavík-a Czech Historian of the Russian Revolution

Jan Slavík-a Czech Historian of the Russian Revolution JAROSLAV BOU � EK (Prague, Czech Republic) JAN SLAVÍK-A CZECH HISTORIAN OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Jan Slavik (1885-1978) was the most controversial Czech historian of the interwar period. He was never appreciated by the official scientific or political cir- cles, and the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and the Communist takeover in 1948 caused his longtime silence, which, except for brief interludes in the years 1945-48 and 1968, lasted until his death. During his long life he wrote about the problem of Russia and the Russian Revolution perhaps more than anybody else. His first study about Russia was published in 1906, while his last (unpublished) comment on the Russian Revolution was written in 1970. He was bom to a well- to-do peasant family near Prague in 1885 and in 1902 he started to study history at Charles University in the seminars of professors Jaroslav Goll and Josef Pekai, the founders of modem Czech positivist historiography. Already in 1906 he published a serious study "The Habsburgs and Russia in the XVIth Century."I He was ac- cused by a Viennese historical journal of describing the Habsburgs as Machia- vellian and the continuation of this article was stopped. . Slavik was a professor http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

Jan Slavík-a Czech Historian of the Russian Revolution

Bouček, Jaroslav
Russian History , Volume 27 (1-4): 10 – Jan 1, 2000
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JAROSLAV BOU � EK (Prague, Czech Republic) JAN SLAVÍK-A CZECH HISTORIAN OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Jan Slavik (1885-1978) was the most controversial Czech historian of the interwar period. He was never appreciated by the official scientific or political cir- cles, and the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and the Communist takeover in 1948 caused his longtime silence, which, except for brief interludes in the years 1945-48 and 1968, lasted until his death. During his long life he wrote about the problem of Russia and the Russian Revolution perhaps more than anybody else. His first study about Russia was published in 1906, while his last (unpublished) comment on the Russian Revolution was written in 1970. He was bom to a well- to-do peasant family near Prague in 1885 and in 1902 he started to study history at Charles University in the seminars of professors Jaroslav Goll and Josef Pekai, the founders of modem Czech positivist historiography. Already in 1906 he published a serious study "The Habsburgs and Russia in the XVIth Century."I He was ac- cused by a Viennese historical journal of describing the Habsburgs as Machia- vellian and the continuation of this article was stopped. . Slavik was a professor

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