Ferdinand Peroutka: Building the State

A continuation of the book Building the State by the representative of Czech democratic journalism Ferdinand Peroutka (1895-1978). In it, the publicist and writer gave a monumental chronicle of the establishment and constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic between 1918 and 1923. In a lively and factual style, he described the peripetia of political development and the process of forming political, social, national and cultural institutions. He proceeded by confronting the sources, through the eyes of a witness and through historical, political and psychological analysis.