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ANDREJ HLINKA IN THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF SLOVAK PROTESTANTS

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Macho P.

Historia@Teoria

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2016

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vol. 1

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issue 1

145-160

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The present paper maps the portrayal of Andrej Hlinka within the Protestant milieu during his lifetime. It also tries to answer the question of Hlinka’s position in the hierarchy of symbols which were and are relevant for the formation of the Slovak Protestants’ identity. Nowadays, ambivalent or expressly negative att itudes towards Hlinka prevail within the Lutheran community, however, similar att itudes prevailed also during the interwar and aft er-war periods. In 1902 at the regional forum, A. Hlinka did not support the rights of the Slovak language which represented a major att ribute of the national identity of Slovaks. Hlinka’s att itude was then reminded in the Lutheran milieu in the situations when an idealized and mythologized portrayal of Hlinka as an uncompromising fi ghter for the national rights spread in particular via offi cial propaganda. In fact, it served as a de-legitimizing instrument of Hlinka cult. During the existence of the Slovak State (1938/1939 – 1945) Slovak Protestants were massively confronted with the phenomenon of Hlinka and denied this historical fi gure in the position of the most signifi cant national symbol. At the religious celebration of the national hero General Milan Rastislav Štefánik in May 1939, General Bishop of the Protestant Church Vladimír Pavel Čobrda compared both personages – Hlinka and Štefánik – and refused the symbolic governmental policy and propaganda which tried to make believe the whole society including Lutherans that Hlinka was a positive social example. He called Štefánik the greatest Slovak who became the symbol of antifascist resistance.

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„NA KRIEDLACH SLOVANSKÉHO CITU ZALETEL ROKU 1915 DO SRBSKA NA POMOC SRBOM“. SYMBOLICKÁ INŠTRUMENTALIZÁCIA M. R. ŠTEFÁNIKA A SLOVANSKÁ VZÁJOMNOSŤ NA POZADÍ DOBOVÝCH MEDZIŠTÁTNYCH VZŤAHOV

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Macho P.

Historický časopis (Historical Journal)

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2015

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vol. 63

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issue 1

47 – 80

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The study analyses the symbolic instrumentalization of the national hero M.R. Štefánik in the context of the modified form of Slavonic community in the 20th century. In the inter-war period, the symbol of Štefánik was used to strengthen the Czechoslovak – Yugoslav alliance on the basis of Slavonic brotherhood. The political representatives of independent Slovakia and Croatia during the Second World War refused to build their inter-state relations on the basis of Slavonic community. From the point of view of Zagreb, Štefánik appeared pro-Serb and pro-Yugoslav, so he was an undesirable symbol for the Croats. Emphasis on the strong Slavonic and Serbophil identity of Štefánik became an instrument for Slovak opposition oriented circles to articulate their resistance to the Ľudák regime and the Slovak state.

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RÁZUS’ “ODKAZ MŔTVYCH” AND THE PERCEPTION OF VIOLENCE IN INTER-CONFESSIONAL RELATIONS

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Macho P.

Historický časopis (Historical Journal)

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2009

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vol. 57

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issue suppl. issue

15 – 39

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The article analyses the literary image of forcible re-Catholicization and maps its perception against the background of the confessional determined reception of the historical novel Odkaz mŕtvych (Message from the Dead). The reception of Rázus’ novel was influenced by Protestant and Catholic historical memory, which included the images of the bad Jesuits or the good Jesuits. The stereotype of the bad Jesuits was updated and politically exploited in the conditions of the totalitarian Ľudák regime. Thus the novel contributed to strengthening anti-regime views in some segments of the reading public.

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ANDREJ HLINKA IN THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF SLOVAK PROTESTANTS

„NA KRIEDLACH SLOVANSKÉHO CITU ZALETEL ROKU 1915 DO SRBSKA NA POMOC SRBOM“. SYMBOLICKÁ INŠTRUMENTALIZÁCIA M. R. ŠTEFÁNIKA A SLOVANSKÁ VZÁJOMNOSŤ NA POZADÍ DOBOVÝCH MEDZIŠTÁTNYCH VZŤAHOV

RÁZUS’ “ODKAZ MŔTVYCH” AND THE PERCEPTION OF VIOLENCE IN INTER-CONFESSIONAL RELATIONS