Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Map 1 Slovak Republic
- 1 Slovakia, the Slovaks and their history
- 2 The Duchy of Nitra
- 3 The beginnings of the nobility in Slovakia
- 4 Medieval towns
- 5 Renaissance and humanist tendencies in Slovakia
- 6 The period of religious disturbances in Slovakia
- 7 The Enlightenment and the beginnings of the modern Slovak nation
- 8 Slovak Slavism and Panslavism
- 9 The Slovak political programme: from Hungarian patriotism to the Czecho-Slovak state
- 10 Slovakia in Czechoslovakia, 1918–1938
- 11 Slovakia from the Munich Conference to the declaration of independence
- 12 The Slovak state, 1939–1945
- 13 The Slovak question and the resistance movement during the Second World War
- 14 The Slovak National Uprising: the most dramatic moment in the nation's history
- 15 The Slovak question, 1945–1948
- 16 Czechoslovakism in Slovak history
- 17 The Magyar minority in Slovakia before and after the Second World War
- 18 The establishment of totalitarianism in Slovakia after the February coup of 1948 and the culmination of mass persecution, 1948–1953
- 19 Slovakia and the attempt to reform socialism in Czechoslovakia, 1963–1969
- 20 Slovakia's position within the Czecho-Slovak federation, 1968–1970
- 21 Slovakia under communism, 1948–1989: controversial developments in the economy, society and culture
- 22 The fall of communism and the establishment of an independent Slovakia
- 23 Afterword: Slovakia in history
- Index
Notes on contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Map 1 Slovak Republic
- 1 Slovakia, the Slovaks and their history
- 2 The Duchy of Nitra
- 3 The beginnings of the nobility in Slovakia
- 4 Medieval towns
- 5 Renaissance and humanist tendencies in Slovakia
- 6 The period of religious disturbances in Slovakia
- 7 The Enlightenment and the beginnings of the modern Slovak nation
- 8 Slovak Slavism and Panslavism
- 9 The Slovak political programme: from Hungarian patriotism to the Czecho-Slovak state
- 10 Slovakia in Czechoslovakia, 1918–1938
- 11 Slovakia from the Munich Conference to the declaration of independence
- 12 The Slovak state, 1939–1945
- 13 The Slovak question and the resistance movement during the Second World War
- 14 The Slovak National Uprising: the most dramatic moment in the nation's history
- 15 The Slovak question, 1945–1948
- 16 Czechoslovakism in Slovak history
- 17 The Magyar minority in Slovakia before and after the Second World War
- 18 The establishment of totalitarianism in Slovakia after the February coup of 1948 and the culmination of mass persecution, 1948–1953
- 19 Slovakia and the attempt to reform socialism in Czechoslovakia, 1963–1969
- 20 Slovakia's position within the Czecho-Slovak federation, 1968–1970
- 21 Slovakia under communism, 1948–1989: controversial developments in the economy, society and culture
- 22 The fall of communism and the establishment of an independent Slovakia
- 23 Afterword: Slovakia in history
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Slovakia in History , pp. xi - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011