The municipal elections of 1919 and the parliamentary/senate elections of 1920 gave women their first opportunity to exercise their new right to vote, and as such were important milestones in the forming of women’s new status as equal citizens. The paper analyses election campaigns aimed at female voters in selected periodicals published by the Czech Catholic People’s Party in 1919 and 1920: the newspaper Lid (The People) and the newly established magazine Žena (Woman). It explores the main topics and strategies of the campaign and identifies the underlying concepts of women’s political interests and motivations. The main focus is on the magazine Žena and its attempts to reconcile traditional Catholic femininity and the ‘separate spheres’ model with women’s newfound status as political actors and to create a picture of a new, politically active Catholic woman for its readership.
The study deals with the comparison of individualities of Jan Šrámek and Bohumil Stašek - key figures of Christian Politics in Czech Lands in interwar period. Their opinions and positions have had big influence on the Czechoslovak People's Party and its politics. The conflict between Stašek and Šrámek, particularly virulent during the 1930s, was a long-term affair and its front-line lead between the Bohemian and Moravian leaderships in the People's Party. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
The article is devoted to Mořic Hruban, a notable personality of Czech political Catholicism. His political role during World War I and in the period of the formation of the Czechoslovak Republic is analyzed here. This conservative and traditionally oriented Catholic gradually changed hisattitude towards some crucial questions; the supporter of the Habsburg Monarchy became an advocate of the Republic. Furthermore, he was one of its prominent statesmen and politicians till its downfall in 1938 and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou