Русская карта Карела Крамаржа

The present study shows some details from the political career of Karel Kramář, the first prime minister of Czechoslovakia, mainly his role as head of the Czechoslovak peace delegation at Paris Peace Conference in 1919. His correspondence with T. G. Masaryk, the country’s first president, one of its founders, reveals that he went to a conference with the idea that the bolshevik issue would be resolved on the basis of his proposals. That is, the Entente will overthrow the revolution in Russia with the active participation of Czechoslovakia and help a bourgeois government to power. Kramář believed that the stability of the region, and of course the condition for Czechoslovakia to become a regional economic leader, was the creation of a large slavic federation (he had already made a plan for this in 1914), which could be an obstacle to eastern German imperialist aspirations. It also turns out that despite his belief in panslavic (or by early 20th century: neoslavic) convictions, he lobbied seriously that not to give the economically very valuable Techen (Těšín/ Cieszyn) region to Poland.