Slovenská otázka pred Mníchovom do Druhej republiky:

• Authors: Zlatica Zudová - Lešková

Title variants

EN

The issue of Slovakia before Munich until the Second Republic:

DE

Die slowakische Frage vor dem Münchener Abkommen bis zur Zweiten Republik:

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This paper discusses the issue of Slovakia during the period from 1918 to 1938, or more precisely 1939, which represents a set of requests, demands and concepts by Slovak political, economic and cultural representatives within the specific state-political environment of Czechoslovakia. The constitutional approval of Slovak autonomy, determined by the Pittsburgh Agreement, signed by representatives of both nations in May 1918 in the USA, is considered the basis of the solution to this issue throughout the entire period. Slovak members of parliament and senators, chiefly from Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party (led by Andre Hlinka) and the Slovak Nationalist Party, present solutions to the issue of Slovakia to the National Congress throughout the entire period of the First Republic, without accepting the broader context of the actual, internal and foreign-political situation of the republic. Victory in the form of constitutional acknowledgment of the autonomous standing of Slovakia was achieved on 6 October 1938, at a time when some of the representatives were already considering an independent state however.

Keywords

EN

history; 20th century; Czechoslovakia; Slovakia; Slovak issue; Slovak autonomy; Constitutional and national issue; relationship between Czechs and Slovaks

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 103-116
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zlatica Zudová - Lešková

• Moderní dějiny, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic