MILO URBAN AKO NOVINÁR V MEDZIVOJNOVOM OBDOBÍ A JEHO NÁRODNO-SOCIÁLNA METAMORFÓZA

• Authors: Janecová Tamara

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Milo Urban as a journalist in the interwar period and his national-social metamorphosis

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The study presents a critical look at Milo Urban’s journalistic texts published between 1921 and 1939. The aim was to evaluate the thematic content of Urban’s articles, ideological attitudes, as well as stylistic specifics and contemporary metaphors. The source base of the research consisted of 208 newspaper articles by Milo Urban, the majority of which were published in the daily Slovák, where Urban worked as an editor. In the context of Urban’s later work at the daily Gardista (1940–1945), an examination of his earlier journalistic activities allows for the completion of the picture of this writer and intellectual in Slovak history. In the 1920s, Urban’s newspaper articles focused on the reflection of social themes; in the 1930s, Urban’s journalistic language gradually changed with the radicalisation of society. He increasingly railed against the concept of Czechoslovakism, which he identified as the key source of the Slovaks’ national and social problems. He felt that the social policy of democracy had failed and that the state was incapable of solving its internal problems with this political system. Urban was not a member of the HSĽS (Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party) or the Hlinka Guard, but his articles show that he identified to a large extent with the People’s Party’s political programme and his articles co-created a power discourse that petrified the ideology of nationalism in Slovakia. In this light, his later ascension to the post of editor-in-chief of Gardista appears to be a gradual development rather than a decisive change of ideological course.

Keywords

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MILO URBAN; JOURNALISM; DAILY SLOVÁK

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 73
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 377 - 403

Contributors

author

Janecová Tamara

• Pedagogická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave, Priemyselná 4, 918 43 Trnava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8873-6965

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2025.73.2.7