Abstract
The argument is explored that the political realism which has been brought forward at the end of the 19th century by the group of academicians (esp. Masaryk, Kramar, Kaizl) supplied czech politics with a new vocabulary enabeling the move from the romanticist views of the nation and czech politics to the more liberal, modernist and pluralistic concept which can serve as a referential framework for the czech national and political identity till today.