Abstrakt
The article focuses on the personality of Josef Polišenský (1915.2001), protagonist of the "general history" at the period when this type of historiographical approach was marginalized in the Czechoslovak academia. Polišenský recommended the use of domestic archival funds for the study of history of other lands and peoples.
These sources were then also to be made accessible by scholars from other countries through editions and translations to help them explain the possible "blank spaces" in their national histories. Thus, the goal was not to amplify the specialized fields of the study of history and culture of specific regions and time periods, but rather the enriching the general history - history of mankind as such - and, ultimately, to revert to the history of Czechoslovakia/the Czech Lands.