Logo of the Czech National Social Party

The Czech National Social Party (Czech: Česká strana národně sociální, 1898 - 1918), Czech Socialist Party (Česká strana socialistická, 1918 - 1919), Czechoslovak Socialist Party (Československá strana socialistická, 1919 - 1926), Czechoslovak National Socialist Party (1926 - 1948), Czechoslavak Socialist Party (Československá strana socialistická, 1948 - 1993), Liberal National Social Party (Liberální strana národně sociální, 1993 - 1995), Free Democrats - Liberal National Social Party (Svobodní demokraté - Liberální strana národně sociální, 1995 - 1997), and again Czech National Social Party (from 1997) was a nationalist party established in 1898 within the Young Czech Party (National Liberal Party) as a nominally socialist group with a stress on achieving Czech independence from the Habsburg Empire (as opposed to the international revolution of the Social Democratic Party, which was the largest Czech socialist group at that time). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Young Czech Party (also National Liberal Party, Národní strana svobodomyslná) was formed in 1874. ... Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community. ... Habsburg (sometimes spelled Hapsburg, but never so in official use) was one of the major ruling houses of Europe. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ...

Despite the apparent connotations of the name, the party had nothing to do with the German German Nazi Party. In Czechoslovakia, Czech Nazis rallied in the Sudeten German Party, most Czech fascists, on the other hand, were vehemently anti-German. The Nazi swastika The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ... The Sudetendeutsche nationalsozialistische Partei or Sudeten German National Socialist Party was created when the new state of Czechoslovakia outlawed the DNSAP, the German National Socialist Workers Party. At the end of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire broke up into its constituent nation states, and the new Czech-dominated... The National Fascist Community (Národní Obec Fašistická (NOF): sometimes translated as National Fascist League) was a Czechoslovakian Fascist movement led by Radola Gajda and based on the Fascism of Benito Mussolini. ...

History

Leadership of the Czech National Social Party was soon assumed by Václav Klofáč. An important role was played by Jiří Stříbrný and Emil Franke as well. The party platform rested on the recalled social traditions of Hussitism and Taboritism, but it was also a programme of "collectivizing by means of development, surmounting of class struggle by national discipline, moral rebirth and democracy as the conditions of socialism, a powerful popular army, etc." Václav Klofáč Václav Jaroslav Klofáč (September 21, 1868 - July 10, 1942) was a Czech politician and one of the founders of the Czech National Social Party. ... Jiří Stříbrný (January 14, 1880—January 21, 1955) was a Czech politician. ... Hussite War Wagons and Hand Cannoneers Hussite Crossbowman and Shield Carrier Hussite War Wagons The Hussite Wars, also called the Bohemian Wars involved the military actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period 1420 to circa 1434. ... The Taborites (Czech Táborité, singular Táborita) were members of a religious protestant community centered on the Bohemian city of Tábor during the Hussite Wars in the 15th century. ...

In 1918 the party changed its name from Czech National Social Party to the Czech Socialist Party, in 1919 to Czechoslovak Socialist Party and then in 1926 to the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party. Edvard Beneš took actual party leadership, although nominally it was his ally Václav Klofáč. Jiří Stříbrný and his friends were expelled, for connections to Radola Gajda and his fascist movement. 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Edvard BeneÅ¡ Edvard BeneÅ¡ with wife 1921, autochrome portrait by Josef JindÅ™ich Å echtl Edvard BeneÅ¡ (May 28, 1884 - September 3, 1948) was a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia. ... Jiří Stříbrný (January 14, 1880—January 21, 1955) was a Czech politician. ... Radola Gajda Radola Gajda (born Rudolf Geidl, February 14, 1892, Kotor, in Montenegro – April 15, 1948, Prague) was a Czech military commander and politician. ... The National Fascist Community (Národní Obec FaÅ¡istická (NOF): sometimes translated as National Fascist League) was a Czechoslovakian Fascist movement led by Radola Gajda and based on the Fascism of Benito Mussolini. ...

From 1921, the party was part of most Czechoslovak government coalitions. Its newspaper was the České slovo. In 1938, a part of the Czech membership entered into the Party of National Unity led by Rudolf Beran, while few of its Slovak members joined the Hlinka Slovak People's Party led by Josef Tiso. Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Party of National Unity (Czech language: Strana národní jednoty or Strana národního sjednocení) was a party created on 21 November 1938 in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia after the occupation of large parts of the country by Germany (Munich Agreement) and Hungary (Vienna Award) as a... Rudolf Beran (December 28, 1887-April 23, 1954) was a Czech politician who served as prime minister of the country during its occupation by Nazi Germany, before it was declared a protectorate. ... The Slovak Peoples Party (Slovak: Slovenská ľudová strana, SĽS, after 1925 Hlinkas Slovak Peoples Party / Hlinkova slovenská ľudová strana/ HSĽS, after 1938 Hlinkas Slovak Peoples Party - Party of Slovak National Unity/Hlinkova. ... Adolf Hitler and Tiso meet in 1942 Monsignor Jozef Tiso (October 13, 1887–April 18, 1947) was a Roman Catholic priest who became a deputy of the Czechoslovak parliament, a member of the Czechoslovak government, and finally the President of the Nazi-controlled puppet government of Slovakia. ...

Under German occupation, the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party functioned in exile and most of its members were active in the resistance movement. After 1945, the party resurfaced, under the leadership of Petr Zenkl, as one of the parties in the National Front. When Czechoslovakia became a communist state in 1948, the party was again renamed the Czechoslovak Socialist Party and democrats were expelled for being too close to the Czech fascist movement. Czech resistance during the Second World War is a scarcely documented subject, by and large a result of little formal resistance and an effective German policy that deterred acts of resistance or annihilated organizations of resistance. ... Year 1945and died 2007 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... The National Front (in Czech: Národní fronta, in Slovak: Národný front) was a (permanent) coalition (or rather group) of parties – since 1948 also of various associations and mass organisations – from 1945 to 1990 in Czechoslovakia. ... This article is about a form of government in which the state operates under the control of a Communist Party. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ...

After the return to democracy in 1989, the National Front was abolished. The party renamed itself the Liberal National Social Party (Liberální strana národně sociální), but failed to gather any significant support and was reduced to minor party status. This led in 1995 to a merger with the Free Democrats, to form the Free Democrats - Liberal National Social Party. After failing in the 1996 elections, the party split and was renamed again in 1997 to the Czech National Social Party. Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... The Party for the Open Society (in Czech Strana pro otevÅ™enou společnost, SOS) is a tiny social-liberal party in the Czech Republic. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Having had no political success for years and crippled by financial debts, the party has almost disappeared.

Election results

• 1920 National Assembly: 8.1 % - 27 seats
• 1925 National Assembly: 8.6 % - 28 seats
• 1929 National Assembly: 10.4 % - 32 seats
• 1935 National Assembly: 9.2 % - 28 seats
• 1946 National Assembly: 18.3% (23.7%) - 55 seats

The 1946 parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia took place on May 26, 1946. ...

since 1990

• 1990 Czech National Council: 2.7 % - no seat
• 1992 Czech National Council: (as a part of Liberal-Social Union 6.5% - 16 seats)
• 1996 Chamber of Deputies: (with Free Democrats 2.1 % - no seat)
• 1996 Senate: no seat
• 1998 Chamber of Deputies: 0.3 % - no seat
• 1998 Senate: no seat
• 2000 Senate: no seat
• 2002 Chamber of Deputies: 0.8 % - no seat
• 2002 Senate: no seat

A Czech legislative election took place on June 8 and June 9, 1990. ... A Czech legislative election took place on June 5 and June 6, 1992. ... Results: Chamber of Deputies Categories: | | ... Results: Chamber of Deputies Categories: | ... Results Categories: | ...

Reference

1. Karel Hoch: The Political Parties of Czechoslovakia.
2. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: Leftism Revisited, Regnery Gateway, Washington D.C., 1990, pp. 145-146.
3. Malá encyklopédia Slovenska, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 1987

Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (July 31, 1909–May 26, 1999) was an Austrian Catholic aristocrat intellectual. ...

See also

• Timeline of liberal parties in the Czech lands

This article gives an overview of liberalism in the Czech Lands. ...

External links

• Czech National Social Party official site (in Czech)