1. Ladislav Holý (1996) The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation: National Identity and the Post-Communist Transformation of Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 40, 50–1.
2. Jacques Rupnik, ‘Central Europe or Mitteleuropa?’, 256. For a more detailed — indeed monumental — investigation of this phenomenon, see Tomasz Kamusella (2009) The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
3. Although as Jaroslav Střitecký has stated: ‘Czech was spoken by a large part of the population and was not threatened by germanisation at all’. ( Střítecký (1995) ‘The Czech Question a Century Later’, Czech Sociological Review, vol. 3 (1), 62.)
4. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1966) in Gunnar Heckscher (ed.) The Problem of Small Nations in the European Crisis: Inaugural Lecture at the University of London, King’s College (London: Athlone Press) [1915].
5. Eva Schmidt-Hartmann (1984) Thomas G. Masaryk’s Realism: Origins of a Czech Political Concept (Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag), 118–19. See also Masaryk’s 1895 ‘The Czech Question’ (Česka otázka).