Slovakia in history
By: edited by Mikuláš Teich, Dušan Kováč, and Martin D. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521802536
Description: "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 Republic 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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Preface: Slovakia, 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 / Vladimir Segeš; 5. Renaissance and humanist tendencies in Slovakia / Eva Frimmová; 6. The period of religious disturbances / Viliam Čičaj; 7. The Enlightenment and beginnings of the modern Slovak nation / Eva Kowalská; 8. Slovak Slavism and Pan-Slavism / Ľudovit Haraksim; 9. The Slovak political programme; title: from Hungarian patriotism to the Czech-Slovak state / Dušan Kováč; 10. Slovakia in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938) / Natália Krajčovičová; 11. Slovakia from the Munich conference to the declaration of independence / Valerián Bystrický; 12. The Slovak state of 1939-1945 / Ivan Kamenec; 13. The Slovak question and the resistance movement during the Second World War / Jan Rychli;k; 14. The Slovak National Uprising in 1944 / Vilem Prečan; 15. The Slovak question after the Second World War / Michal Barnovský; 16. Czechoslovakism in Slovak history / Elisabeth Bakke; 17. Magyar minority in Slovakia before and after the Second World War / Štefan Šutaj; 18. The establishment of totalitarianism in Slovakia after the February coup of 1948 and the culmination of mass persecution (1948-1953) / Jan Pešek; 19. Slovakia and the attempt to reform socialism in Czechoslovakia 1963-1969 / Stanislav Sikora; 20. The position of Slovakia in the Czech-Slovak Federation / Jozef Žatkuliak; 21. Slovakia under the communist dictatorship 1948-1989 : controversial development in the economic, social, and cultural fields / Miroslav Londák and Elena Londáková; 22. The fall of communism and independent Slovakia / Michal Štefanský; 23. Afterword / Mikuláš Teich.