After World War I, Greek Catholic Church had been brought from the previous era to the new constitutional circumstances reputation of the subject willing to cooperate with former governmental authorities on magyarization of its believers. The Church had thus necessarily to undergo the process of adaptation to the new conditions of democratic and nationally Slavic oriented first Czechoslovak Republic. One manifestation of this was the modification of its management structures. The present study discusses about competing factions within the leadership of ecclesial province struggling for the post of new apostolic administrator, which were differentiated based on national and cultural preferences and attitudes to then actual state power.
The year 1989 marked a new stage in the Slovak historiography which allowed a new reinterpretation of the previous research and opened up topics which were considered taboo until then. This article discusses the results of scientific research in the field of Rusyn´s history in the twenties of the last century. This later research showed that it was a crucial period for them. On the one hand, in this period began divergent development that separated Rusyns of eastern Slovakia from their countrymen in Ruthenia. On the other hand, while this development was initially perceived negatively, it is argued that of the entire homeland of Rusyns in the Carpathian Mountains, Rusyns in eastern Slovakia have probably the best prospects for their further national development.
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