Czechoslovakia: Interwar Democracy 1918-1939
Suicide writings	While the Habsburgs were fighting World War I, a delegation of Czechs and Slovaks left the country to lobby for independence from the Habsburg Empire. T.G. Masaryk emerged as a key figure in those negotiations. Masaryk began his career as a professor of sociology. He researched and wrote extensively about suicide. He was a signer of the Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence and was elected President of the newly formed Czechoslovak state after World War I. The Czechoslovak state was the only successfully democratic state among the new Central Eastern European countries formed at the Paris Peace Conference.	Poem on Masaryk
Czechoslovak Declaration of Independence	For the first time in Centuries, Czechs and Slovaks were governed by members of their own nations. Masaryk encouraged pride in the Czech nation and the Czechoslovak state enjoyed strong relationships with Western Europe and economic advances. Matka Vlast, Motherland a pictorial history of Czechoslovakia was written in 1924. Czech history books praised the nation and authors heaped praise on Masaryk for achieving democracy for the state.	Matka Vlast, Motherland

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