STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1805, sig. 109-5/33 (damaged)

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57 - ll - the reaction against it is also a reaction of the Privileged, not one of the actual people, from whose memory on the contrary, the People's Emperor has never disappeared. The importance of its frameworks for the emergence of nationalism, that the states had to fail to see in the face of the general ideas of the lord to strengthen their position around an eimes Bundesgengssen and that this federal comrade var the national idea. Especially for Bohemia, the alliance of state politics and nationalism is particularly pharaohistic. It has decisively shaped the political programmatics of the Czech national movement of the 19th Aahhun century. In protest against the Josephine centralism, the Bohemian states began again to deal with their historical position in Bohemia, from where they also began to approach the Czech. On appointment, they began to speak Czech from a certain day, in the antechambers of the imperial castle in Prague, although they were only able to speak the language more poorly. This resulted in the necessity of contact with the younger growing generation, mostly of petty-bourgeois origin, which was powerful in the Czech language. A positive relationship from this. This explains for the most part that the Czech early nationalism was conservative, not revolutionary. It was decisively promoted by the Bohemian nobility to support its social and political position and thus also shaped. A revolutionary-radical direction, I which, of course, also existed, could not compete with it in meaning. First visible sign of this new reversal in the attitude of the stands is the coronation - 12 -