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The declaration of the new Czechoslovak national state in October 1918 brought revolutionary changes not only to the political, social, economic and cultural scene, but also to the religious life of the country. The new Czechoslovak national church created thirteen months later combined national orientation, the reformed clerical movement, theological modernism, the Hussite and reformation tradition and protest against the Catholic Church, definitively discredited in World War I. The newly established Czechoslovak Church received support from various authorities and was seen as the proper option for the good Czechoslovak citizen, primarily the worker. At the same time, it produced a violent conversion movement (1921, 1930) and many local conflicts (1920s). The paper will focus on the workers' religious and national identification and changes in today's Ostrava region – an industrial region (the centre of Czechoslovak heavy industry) situated on the ethnic borderline and in the melting pot of many nationalities (Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Germans and Jews). It will analyse the interactions between class and the religious and national identification of workers. It will try to clarify the process and the motivation to convert between different churches. Special attention will be given to conversions among the working class population in the 1920s and 1930s. This analysis will be based on conversion protocols, census documents from 1921 and 1930 and ecclesiastical files of the Roman Catholic and Czechoslovak church.

During the interwar years, the footwear industry was confronted with similarly revolutionary changes and processes to those in the automobile industry which tend to be associated with the name of Henry Ford. Their major vehicle became the originally Czechoslovak enterprise of the Ba'a siblings, which, during the first decades of the twentieth century, grew into a gigantic concern with global reach.Seventeen researchers from Europe and North America trace the fascinating story of the Ba'a concern, a substantive chapter of which from the end of the 1920s became the establishment of company towns

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Preface -- Jerzy Kochanowski / Claudia Kraft: Introduction: "Rooms for Manoeuvre" - a New Paradigm for the Research of State Socialist Societies -- Contributions of the volume -- Socialist Space-Time -- Peripheries -- Privacy in State Socialism -- (Negotiated) Transnational Rooms -- Literature -- Part I: Socialist Space-Time -- Maria Hetzer: Negotiating Economic Development and Everyday Needs in Rural GDR and Beyond -- Introduction: Concepts and context -- A society of negotiations -- Golzow: The case study -- Room for Manoeuvre: Showcasing successful socialist agriculture -- Room for Manoeuvre: Gender policies and economic considerations -- Room for Manoeuvre after 1989: Venturing into Tekucha, Ukraine -- Conclusion -- Archives and Sources -- Literature -- Martin Jemelka: The Unified Cooperative Farm - Agrocombine Sluovice: Genesis, Tradition, Interpretation -- Introduction -- The Genesis of the Sluovice Miracle -- Zlín and Sluovice, Bat'a and Čuba: (Dis)‍continued History -- Autonomy, Autarky and Authority: An Attempt to Interpret the Sluovice Miracle -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Juraj Buzalka: Room to Manoeuvre under State Socialism and the Memory of Livelihood -- Economy and memory -- Progress beyond ideology -- State socialist steel makers -- Red count's socialist flat -- Value of the house -- Natural entrepreneur -- Peasant or ethnic memories -- Post-socialist house economy -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Part II: Peripheries -- Duan Sege: A Failed "Marriage": The Attitude of the Peasants and the Government Toward the First Stage of Collectivisation in the Preov Region (1949-1953) -- Preov Region - Social and Cultural Specificity -- Socialist Collectivisation in Czechoslovakia and Disobedience Strategies -- Human Resources -- Archives and Sources -- Literature.