The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: a successful engagement of the social and the nationalist protest

Abstract

Communist parties are generally associated with proletarian internationalism. However, some communist parties have a double “face” – an internationalist one and nationalist one. Present-day Czech communists successfully build on this tactic. My article will answer the following research questions: What causes the strong nationalist orientation of contemporary Czech communists? What type of nationalism does it represent? And is the outlined continuity between the interwar period and the present-day accidental or is it (at least partly) caused by certain objective political and/or social factors?