Slovakia in History

Table of Contents

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 Štefan Šutaj
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.

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