The study follows the changing view on the establishment of Czechoslovakia in selected literature textbooks and readers. Although it is not possible to find out how individual teachers worked with state-approved information and illustrative texts, due to their widespread distribution and long-term presence in Czech curricula, the textbooks may have played a significant role in shaping the idea of Czechoslovak statehood. The study is divided into three parts, each following a selected period in the Czech history: the First Republic, the Communist Era, and the Post-November Perspective. The first part offers an eyewitness account of the events connected with the establishment of the Republic; period textbooks shed light on the reasons for declaring independence, recall the restrictive conditions in the Habsburg Monarchy, and work with symbols such as the Declaration, Masaryk, the legion, the Writers’ Manifesto of 1917, later also Beneš. A radically different view of the First Republic was held by the Communists, who either concealed its establishment or interpreted it as a result of the October Revolution, and claimed that the country never obtained the desired socialist character since the bourgeoisie retained its dominant position in the society. The First Republic symbols disappeared until 1989, when the primary effort addressed the fulfilment of factual gaps concerning the given historical period, which was now depicted with both its positives and negatives. The time lag and the onset of activating forms of teaching gradually led towards a reduction in ideologically motivated factography.