Slovakia on the road to independence
Subtitle: an American diplomat's eyewitness account
By: Paul Hacker.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780271036236
Subjects: Slovakia -- Politics and government -- 1945-1992; Slovakia -- Politics and government -- 1993-
Description: "An eyewitness account by an American diplomat of the events that led up to Slovakia's independence in 1993. Includes an examination of Slovakia's post-independence development"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: By way of prelude; title: Getting organized in Slovakia; title: Na slovensku po slovensky: crisis over the language law; title: The Gulf War and Slovakia; title: The VPN implodes; title: Ambassador Shirley Temple Black: the person and the flower; title: More Hungarian problems: Gabikovo, the constitution, and the road signs; title: Czech-Slovak relations; title: Countdown to the 1992 elections; title: Slovakia's second revolution: Meiar's triumphant return; title: Aftermath of the 1992 elections: the breakup of the federation; title: Human rights in Slovakia; title: The Slovak state and the Jewish question; title: Trnava University: assault on academic freedom or dialogue of the deaf?; title: The microphone episode; title: Vladim"r Meiar; title: Other Slovak personalities; title: U.S. policy and Czechoslovakia; title: Independence and its aftermath: the domestic angle; title: Independence and its aftermath: the foreign angle; title: Do videnia, Slovensko.