Political Programmes of Czech National Parties, 1891–1914

The publication constitutes the fourth volume of the Edition of Political Programmes that aims to document the development of political parties in the Bohemian Lands until 1948. The forthcoming volume is a follow-up to the third part of this edition, which was dedicated to political programme of Czech nationalist parties until the 1891 Reichsrat elections that resulted in an end to the dominance of the Old Czech Party within Czech civil policy. This fourth volume is concerned with political programme of both the Old and Young Czech parties in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in 1891-1914 during the ongoing differentiation of Czech adherences to the political parties. The main issue of the Czech political subjects was therefore the relationship between the Czech nation and the Austrian state and enforcement of Czech requirements for ethnic and linguistic equality with the Germans in the Bohemian Lands while respecting the constitutional unity of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown.  From the early 20th century, the Old and Young Czech Party politicians expressed their views on the governmental and German proposals regarding the Czech-German settlement in Bohemia and Moravia and faced confrontations with their demands for the establishment of universal suffrage. In the preface the editor presents a large paper on the transformations of political programme of the Czech national liberal parties in the given period. The edition contains 127 documents (official agenda, memoranda, statements, legal proposals, etc.) supplemented with textual critical and factual annotation apparatus, a name index and list of sources and literature.