Slovakia in History

Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–1993. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak state from 1918–1939, and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject.

Edited by:
Mikulas Teich, Robinson College, Cambridge
Dusan Kovac, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Martin D. Brown, Richmond from The American International University in London

Obsah:

Slovakia, the Slovaks and their history Dusan Kovac

The Duchy of Nitra Jan Steinhübel

The beginnings of the nobility in Slovakia Jan Lukacka

Medieval towns Vladimir Seges

Renaissance and humanist tendencies in Slovakia Eva Frimmova

The period of religious disturbances in Slovakia Viliam Cicaj

The Enlightenment and the beginnings of the modern Slovak nation Eva Kowalska

Slovak Slavism and Pan-Slavism Ludovit Haraksim

The Slovak political programme: from Hungarian patriotism to the Czecho-Slovak state Dusan Kovac

Slovakia in Czechoslovakia (1918–1938) Natalia Krajcovicova

Slovakia from the Munich conference to the declaration of independence Valerian Bystricky

The Slovak state, 1939–1945 Ivan Kamenec

The Slovak question and the resistance movement during the Second World War Jan Rychlik

The Slovak National Uprising: the most dramatic moment in the nation's history Vilem Precan

The Slovak question, 1945–1948 Michal Barnovsky

Czechoslovakism in Slovak history Elisabeth Bakke

The Magyar minority in Slovakia before and after the Second World War Stefan Sutaj

The establishment of totalitarianism in Slovakia after the February coup of 1948 and the culmination of mass persecution, 1948–1953 Jan Pesek

Slovakia and the attempt to reform socialism in Czechoslovakia, 1963–1969 Stanislav Sikora

Slovakia's position within the Czecho-Slovak federation, 1968–1970 Jozef Zatkuliak

Slovakia under communism, 1948–1989: controversial developments in the economy, society and culture Miroslav Londak and Elena Londakova

The fall of communism and the establishment of an independent Slovakia Michal Stefansky

Afterword: Slovakia in history Mikulas Teich.

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