"At the Price of the Republic"
Subtitle: Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1929-1938 (Series in Russian and East European Studies)
Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt); Univ of Pittsburgh Pr; Brand: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt)
Published: May 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780822937791
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Political structure & processes; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Political History; Political Parties; History: World; Former Czechoslovakia; Hlinka, Andrej; 1864-1938; History; Hlinka, Andrej,; Hlinkova slovenskâa l§udovâa strana; Nationalism; Slovakia
Description: Slovak nationalist sentiment has been a constant presence in the history of Czechoslovakia, and the torrent of nationalism which resulted in the dissolution of the Republic on January 1, 1993, is only its most recent expression.

In this book, James Felak examines a parallel episode, in the 1930s, when Slovak nationalists achieved autonomy for Slovakia, soon followed by independence - but "at the price" of the loss of East Central Europe's only parliamentary democracy and the strengthening of Nazi power in the heart of Europe.