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THE PORTRAYAL OF ANDREJ HLINKA IN SLOVAK HISTORIOGRAPHY

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Letz R.

Historia@Teoria

2016

vol. 1

issue 2

121-140

Th e paper analyzes the course of the process of historical research of the personality of Andrej Hlinka. One of the most signifi cant fi gures of the Slovak history in general became the subject of interest of the Slovak historians only gradually, slowly and with big diffi culties. Nevertheless, historians´ opinions which have been formed in particular period connections refl ect specifi - cally and typically the peripeties of the development of the Slovak national issue and phases of interest (disinterest) of historiography in this personality, and they represent a unique source of the view of collective historical memory of the national community, of the formally desired and naturally formed development of the community´s notion of the values of its own past. No historical monograph on Hlinka was published in 1939-1989. However, important references, period evaluations and observations can be found in synthetically oriented works of the following historians: František Hrušovský, František Bokes, Július Mésároš and Ľubomír Lipták and others. Th e personality of Hlinka was either suppressed or evaluated one-sidedly negatively. Th e year 1968 brought a certain change in this direction and revaluation of Hlinka’s personality. Th e period of normalization in 70s and 80s created a larger space to remember Hlinka’s personality, however, its interpretation was again shift ed towards negative side. The social and political change aft er 1989 and current state of research corroborate natural comeback of the personality in its environment, however, they also mirror a disproportion between spontaneously preserved “heritage of (the Slovak) historical memory” (heritage of the memory of majority of the national community, respectively) and institutionally created “memory of the heritage”.

Štátny súd a jeho činnosť v rokoch 1948 – 1952

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Letz R.

Acta historica Neosoliensia Vedecký časopis pre historické vedy

2014

vol. 17

issue 1-2

105-119

The study deals with the history of the State Court. This specialized court acted on the territory of the former Czechoslovakia under the Act 232/1948 Coll. from 6 October 1948 until its abolition on 31 December 1952. The State Court was one of the basic institutions used by the Communist Party as an instrument of punishment of its real and imaginary opponents. The State Court was centralized institution. Its centre was in Prague and was led by Hugo Richter as its president. In addition the center has got two departments – in Brno and in Bratislava. The boards of the State Court judged the most serious cases concerning the action against the Communist regime according the cruel Act 231/1948 Coll. (treason, military betrayal, espionage, sabotage). We have got an indication that the State Court sentenced in the Czech part of the state a total of 15,630 people. Due to the incompleteness, it is difficult to determine the exact number of prisoners sentenced by the Department of the State Court in Bratislava (led by Karel Bedrna). After further archival research it was managed to finalize more accurate data. The total number of sentenced by the State Court in Slovakia, as well as missing two months of November and December 1952, can reasonably be estimated at 2,884 persons. The State Court worked in Czechoslovakia overall during four years and two months. The State Court went down in the modern history as a tool of hard repression and as a symbol of injustice. This is evidenced by the fact that the most of its judgments were later on canceled by the rehabilitation proceedings.

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THE PORTRAYAL OF ANDREJ HLINKA IN SLOVAK HISTORIOGRAPHY

Štátny súd a jeho činnosť v rokoch 1948 – 1952