The study deals with the problems of recognition connected with the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918-1920. Czechoslovakia as an independent state was established after the dissolution and demise of the existing state - Austria-Hungary.
However, the representation of the newly conceived state (a state in statu nascendi) had come into existence and had been gradually and to a different extent recognized by Allied powers even before the collapse of Austria-Hungary. Czechoslovakia as a newly emerging state had been internationally recognized through its exile bodies and military troops even before it was declared by the local political representation on 28 October 1918.