Slovakia in History

Mikulás Teich
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 8/22/2013
EAN 9781107676909, ISBN10: 1107676908

Paperback, 434 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English

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 1992–3. 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 1918–39, 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.

1. Slovakia, the Slovaks and their history Dušan Kováč
2. The Duchy of Nitra Ján Steinhübel
3. The beginnings of the nobility in Slovakia Ján Lukačka
4. Medieval towns Vladimír Segeš
5. Renaissance and humanist tendencies in Slovakia Eva Frimmová
6. The period of religious disturbances in Slovakia Viliam Čičaj
7. The Enlightenment and the beginnings of the modern Slovak nation Eva Kowalská
8. Slovak Slavism and Pan-Slavism Ľudovít Haraksim
9. The Slovak political programme
from Hungarian patriotism to the Czecho-Slovak state Dušan Kováč
10. Slovakia in Czechoslovakia (1918–38) Natália Krajčovičová
11. Slovakia from the Munich conference to the declaration of independence Valerián Bystrický
12. The Slovak state, 1939–45 Ivan Kamenec
13. The Slovak question and the resistance movement during the Second World War Jan Rychlík
14. The Slovak National Uprising
the most dramatic moment in the nation's history Vilém Prečan
15. The Slovak question, 1945–8 Michal Barnovský
16. Czechoslovakism in Slovak history Elisabeth Bakke
17. The Magyar minority in Slovakia before and after the Second World War Å tefan Å utaj
18. The establishment of totalitarianism in Slovakia after the February coup of 1948 and the culmination of mass persecution, 1948–53 Jan Pešek
19. Slovakia and the attempt to reform socialism in Czechoslovakia, 1963–9 Stanislav Sikora
20. Slovakia's position within the Czecho-Slovak federation, 1968–70 Jozef Žatkuliak
21. Slovakia under communism, 1948–89
controversial developments in the economy, society and culture Miroslav Londák and Elena Londáková
22. The fall of communism and the establishment of an independent Slovakia Michal Štefanský
23. Afterword
Slovakia in history Mikuláš Teich.