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As in any scientific field, social communication plays a very important role in historiography, too. It manifests itself in the operation of institutions, research directions and, naturally, in the personal lives of individual scholars. In addition to examining paradigms, ideas, concepts and methodologies, it is therefore appropriate to examine the network of social connections within the field. It...
The paper analyses the issue of a fight against the bourgeois legends about the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918. It uses the example of a Slovak historian Ľudovít Holotík and his book “Štefánikovská legenda a vznik ČSR”. It also focuses on the changes experienced in the period 1960–1968 by the Czech and Slovak historian communities and historiographies describing the First World War and the fight...