Slovakia in History

by Edited by Mikuláš Teich , Dušan Kováč , Martin D. Brown

• ISBN13: 9780521802536
• ISBN10: 0521802539
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 19921993. 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 Republic from 19181939 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.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. viii
List of maps	p. x
Notes on contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Slovakia, the Slovaks and their history	p. 1
The Duchy of Nitra	p. 15
The beginnings of the nobility in Slovakia	p. 30
Medieval towns	p. 38
Renaissance and humanist tendencies in Slovakia	p. 54
The period of religious disturbances in Slovakia	p. 71
The Enlightenment and the beginnings of the modern Slovak nation	p. 87
Slovak Slavism and Panslavism	p. 101
The Slovak political programme: from Hungarian patriotism to the Czecho-Slovak state	p. 120
Slovakia in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938	p. 137
Slovakia from the Munich Conference to the declaration of independence	p. 157
The Slovak state, 1939-1945	p. 175
The Slovak question and the resistance movement during the Second World War	p. 193
The Slovak National Uprising: the most dramatic moment in the nation's history	p. 206
The Slovak question, 1945-1948	p. 229
Czechoslovakism in Slovak history	p. 247
The Magyar minority in Slovakia before and after the Second World War	p. 269
The establishment of totalitarianism in Slovakia after the February coup of 1948 and the culmination of mass persecution, 1948-1953	p. 284
Slovakia and the attempt to reform socialism in Czechoslovakia, 1963-1969	p. 299
Slovakia's position within the Czecho-Slovak federation, 1968-1970	p. 315
Slovakia under communism, 1948-1989: controversial developments in the economy, society and culture	p. 330
The fall of communism and the establishment of an independent Slovakia	p. 351
Afterword: Slovakia in history	p. 370
Index	p. 391
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