World War I, War and Postwar Social Crises, Bohemian Lands, Local Self-Government, Ethnicizing, New State Order

The ethnicising is not a post-war phenomenon, but was launched in the last years of Cisleithania (ethnicising of politics and law such as the Moravian Compromise 1905), and continued after the war under changed circumstances and intensified. Exemplified on Moravia and Silesia (primary sources), some also from Bohemia (literature), the relative weight of ethnic aspects is reminded and other aspects that were even more important and often combined with the ethnic one (social and political aspects) are taken into consideration:1) Some examples of hate and violence from war times: hunger and labour revolts. The society became accustomed to violence.2) First after-war months – limited open conflicts: Czech-Poles, Czech Germans (Těšínsko region, Sudetenland, Märzgefallenen).3) Antisemitic local excesses.4) National motivation for the creation of administrative committees and of the postponing of the municipal elections.5) National motivation for the administrative reforms (the restriction of district self-government, the merging of Silesia with Moravia, the merging of municipalities – Big Brno, Big Ostrava etc.).6) Changes in school system (the transfer of the part of children from German to Czech schools; tying of the visited school to nationality in Moravia).7) National changes on the level of state offices (district captains).

The ethnicising is not a post-war phenomenon, but was launched in the last years of Cisleithania (ethnicising of politics and law such as the Moravian Compromise 1905), and continued after the war under changed circumstances and intensified. Exemplified on Moravia and Silesia (primary sources), some also from Bohemia (literature), the relative weight of ethnic aspects is reminded and other aspects that were even more important and often combined with the ethnic one (social and political aspects) are taken into consideration:1) Some examples of hate and violence from war times: hunger and labour revolts. The society became accustomed to violence.2) First after-war months – limited open conflicts: Czech-Poles, Czech Germans (Těšínsko region, Sudetenland, Märzgefallenen).3) Antisemitic local excesses.4) National motivation for the creation of administrative committees and of the postponing of the municipal elections.5) National motivation for the administrative reforms (the restriction of district self-government, the merging of Silesia with Moravia, the merging of municipalities – Big Brno, Big Ostrava etc.).6) Changes in school system (the transfer of the part of children from German to Czech schools; tying of the visited school to nationality in Moravia).7) National changes on the level of state offices (district captains).