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The paper analyse concisely a history of Hungarian community in Czechoslovak Republic after 1918. Similarly as the majority society – Slovaks, the Hungarians underwent a dramatic flow of changes – adaption to conditions of the First Republic (1945 – 1948), a period of communist dictate and democratic changes after November 1989. Each of these periods affected lives of Hungarians living in Slovakia in a different way. The paper is trying to provide elementary information of these developments and reactions of Hungarians not only as members of community but also as individuals.
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The paper analyses the status of members of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia at the end of 1950s and beginning of 1960s. The topic concerns the conditions of the society governed by the ruling Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. It is shown that Hungarian community was not perceived as an independent ethno-social entity and that ethnic policy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in relation to Hungarians was limited to cultural, educational and linguistic issues only.
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The paper addresses the origins of the ‘Hungarian minority question’ in Slovakia, which emerged after the national revolutions in Central Europe in 1918-19 and which is still a hot issue today. Special attention is paid to the milieu of the multi-ethnic (Hungarian, Slovak, and German) social democratic movements and to the question of how the different ethnic elements of this movement tried to come to terms with the new political challenges posed by the radical change in inter-ethnic power structure in Slovakia. The Hungarian social democrats were among the first to come forward with ‘new’ ideas, now understanding the need for them in their new situation.
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The article is devoted to the situation of the Hungarian minority in 1960s. It mainly deals with the situation in 1968, legislative activities towards ensuring minority rights by the Communist Party authorities, public bodies and proposals based on the initiative of the Hungarian minority institutions.
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The article deals with the Hungarian minority parties in Slovakia in the thirtieth years of 20th century. It describes their political activities, political orientation of these political parties and attitudes of Hungarian inhabitants toward Czechoslovak Republic.
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The paper is devoted to the status of the Hungarian minority’s teachers in Slovakia after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic (CSR) at the end of 1918. The CSR was a state including several ethnic minorities. Hungarians were the most numerous ethnic minorities in the Slovak parts. After the foundation of the CSR, the economic, political, social and ideological situation in the country changed radically. Some of the changes affected inhabitants of Slovakia only indirectly. Others interfered with their way of life to a significant degree. One of the areas which underwent a substantial change was education in all types of schools.
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In 1956, the Czechoslovak authorities successfully suppressed all traces of a potential uprising. The Czechoslovak society was not yet prepared for a political turn-over in the 50's. Slovak Hungarians could choose between their survival as a minority and an uprising in autumn 1956. A sober deliberation excluded all steps leading to a Hungarian revolution. The Slovak Hungarians still had vivid memories of suffering, which they experienced after 1945. Worries of being accused of irredentism were strong and any support of Hungarian revolution was unthinkable.
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Under the influence of foreign policy developments, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia made substantial changes to the position of members of the Hungarian community in Czechoslovakia during the second half of 1948. These included the formation of a Hungarian cultural society. The founding assembly of the Cultural Society of the Hungarian Workers in Czechoslovakia (in Slovak: 'Kulturny spolok madarskych pracujucich v Ceskoslovensku', in Hungarian: 'Czehszlovakiai Magyar Dolgozok Kulturegyesulete', abbreviation: 'Csemadok') was held on 5 March 1949. The beginnings of its activity were conditioned by the dramatic socio-political situation, as well as by relations between the Slovak and Hungarian populations, which were not characterized by mutual trust or understanding in that period. The main problems were the statutes of the society, the membership of re-Slovakized people and the powers of the Commission for Information and Enlightenment. The members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia also held different views on these questions. The formation of the organizational structure did not proceed smoothly at first. This was also the result of continuing fears among members of the Hungarian minority as a result of the period 1945 -1948. The 'Csemadok' became part of the National Front at the end of 1951 in harmony with the political line of the Communist Party.
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The study analyses the policy of the leadership of the Communist Party of Slovakia (CPS) to the communists of Hungarian nationality after February 1948. It examines the attitude of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPC) and CPS to the membership of people of Hungarian nationality in their ranks with an emphasis on the fact that significant questions in this area were decided on the level of the CPC leadership in Prague. The Communist Party of Slovakia, already only a regional organization of the CPC, consistently put these decisions into practice. The paper gives a picture of the formation and activity of the Hungarian Commission at the Central Committee of the CPS, which worked from November 1948 to October 1949.
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In the period from November 1989 to 2008 new enactment about state of national minorities and ethnical groups was created. Slovak Republic became signatory to international treaties about human rights related to national minorities and ethnic groups. Regularization of the state of national minorities and ethnical groups is made by the complex of articles. The most distinguished is the article about using the languages of national minorities.
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The paper deals with the basic issues of political development of Hungarian opposition parties during the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic (CSR). Within the frame of a parliamentary democracy in CSR the whole array of political parties was active, including political associations based on the ethnic principle. Among the Hungarian community the primary role was played by the Provincial Christian Social Party (PChSP) and the Hungarian National Party (HNP). Eventually, even though they were representing primarily interests of the Hungarian population, they differed in their confessional orientation, but also in their ability to gain support of voters outside the Hungarian community. PChSP, which represented itself as a strictly Catholic Party, was able to attract preferences of a segment of Slovak Catholics. On the other hand, the Hungarian National Party could count on votes of certain number of members of the Jewish minority. The both parties differentiated also in their approach to ruling coalition. Whereas MNS was pursuing a policy of opposition in some circumstances it was open to cooperation with government if its demands aimed at improvement of the status of Hungarian community would be met, the PChSP was a priori against any cooperation with government. Till their unification both Hungarian opposition parties were active as autonomous political associations. A dramatic development of political situation at the end of 1938 resulted in a radical change of the status of the Hungarian political opposition as well as Hungarian population. On the basis of Vienna Arbitrage from 2 November 1938, a sizeable part of the Southern Slovakia, where the majority of members of the Hungarian minority lived was annexed by Hungary.
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The paper is analysing causes and character of irredentist activities of Hungarian governments in relation to Czechoslovakia during the monitored period. Principal aim of irredenta was to establish an alternative to the direct annexation of Slovakia, or at least of part of the Slovak territory inhabited by the Hungarian minority. The goal of irredenta, besides other, was also to reinforce ethnic awareness of the Hungarian population in Slovakia, to cultivate a historic legacy of Hungary and to eliminate integral processes, which could weaken connections of members of the Hungarian community toward their kin country. Parallel with the increase of political instability during the second half of thirties, intensify also irredentist activities among ethnic Hungarians. The status of majority of Hungarians living in Slovakia was dramatically changed after the annexation of the majority of Hungarians to Hungary.
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The paper deals with the analysis of election results, in particular parliamentary election, to the Chamber of Deputies of the National Assembly in the interwar period. Districts Levice, Rožňava and Veľké Kapušany are compared. The attention is focused on the national composition and social structure and its effect on the political process and parliamentary results in mentioned districts. District Levice had about the same population as district Rožňava. District Veľké Kapušany was in terms of population smaller but in all studied districts was approximately equal percentage of representatives of the Hungarian minority. The election results from 1925, 1929 and 1935 show that despite a weaker representation of the Hungarian minority, when compared to the German minority, the representation of minorities in ČSR was fair and certainly better than the representation of the non-Hungarian nationalities in the pre-1918 Hungarian Parliament.
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Consolidation of national character of state, retrograde of social atmosphere in relation to Hungarian minority continued in 2008. Henceforth the government activity was based on established legislative and international norms in area of national relationships, together with strengthening of patriotism policy and as well as consolidation of aspects which made conditions for improvement of knowledge of Slovak language at members of Hungarian minority. Negotiations between government and The National Council of Slovak Republic were relatively often devoted to the national theme. The outcome of these negotiations was production of some schemes which reforms this subject-matter, which pertained to status of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia. In 2008 these laws were approved: school law, law on name and surname, law on geographical names, law on organization of sports undertaking. In the same year discussion on the state language and law on municipal establishment were began. Discussion was done as well on criminal law and it was brought forward question on protection of republic. It was also argued about on all mentioned norms and their proposals with context of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.
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The paper deals with problems of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia in the 20th century. It monitors the perception of history on the example of anti-Hungarian measures after the Second World War on the basic of results of sociology – socio-psychological research of Institute of Social Sciences in Košice.
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The history of the Hungarian Party in the first Slovak Republic has not been studied up to now. The leading figure in Hungarian politics in Slovakia was János Esterházy, who had to manoeuvre between the expectations of Bratislava, Budapest and Berlin. His rightist, Christian – conservative politics, which contained many contradictions and were not entirely compatible with the political orientation of Slovakia at the time, also had critics within his own party. The present study is concerned with internal disputes within the Hungarian Party and with attempts to reconstruct the party according to national socialist principles. The text also devotes detailed attention to the attempts to remove J. Esterházy from the leadership of the party and the views of Budapest and Berlin on this process.
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The study is concerned with the history of Hungarian politics in Czechoslovakia between two wars. Hungarian activism, which was not researched up to now, is in the centre of the author's attention. On the basis of previously unpublished archive sources, the author offers a basic review of pro-government political activity among the Hungarians. He concerns himself with individual orientations of activism and with leading personalities in it. In the conclusion, he offers an overall assessment of Hungarian activism and analyses the causes of its failure.
Mesto a dejiny
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2015
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vol. 4
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issue 2
62 – 71
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The article describes the celebrations of momentous political holidays in Rožňava in the interwar period. It mainly deals with the national holiday of establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, birthday of the President T. G. Masaryk and Labour Day. The attention is focused on the analysis of the program during the celebration and possible national conflicts in a multi-ethnic city Rožňava. At the end of the article there are mentioned holidays celebrated in Hungary and their impact on the Hungarian minority in the southern part of the Czechoslovakia.
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The status of Hungarian minority has changed after the formation of Czechoslovak Republic. Attitudes of Hungarian inhabitants who lived in Slovakia were not constant to Czechoslovak Republic. They changed under influence of political progress. In Slovakia existed two major Hungarian parties - Orszagos Keresztenyiszocialista Part and Magyar Nemzeti Part, besides them there were some minor parties. The Orszagos Keresztenyiszocialista Part and Magyar Nemzeti Part co-operated with the Zipserdeutsche Partei. The Zipserdeutsche Partei during its existence was part of them. Co-operation between these parties (Hungarian parties and Zipserdeutsche Partei) was realized through the election coalitions in 1929 and 1935. Sometimes they organized the Congresses of opposition parties. Hungarian parties still attacked and criticized the situation in Czechoslovakia and pointed to the dissatisfaction with the situation of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.
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The Hungarian minority in Slovakia and its representation play a significant role in the social and political life of Slovakia. Since 1989 the relationship toward this minority from the perspective of the governmental policy has become a barometer of pro-Europeanism and often even pro-democracy of the governmental groups. This is a result of the importance of the issue of national minorities within European communities and the European Union policy. In 2007 the Slovak government confirmed the status quo in the position of national minorities. Organisational changes in civil service dealing with national minorities were brought to the end. In the spirit of this program declaration, a process of strengthening position of the Slovak language began in national education, culture and through support of national powers in Slovakia - mainly in its southern part. The governmental policy of the year 2007 was in the sign of nationalism, but also an evocation of historical issues. The SMK (Slovak-Hungarian Coalition) freed from coalition obligations and with a new leadership, raised issues which it failed to solve previously. One of the issues, the compensation of Hungarians and Germans connected to Benes decrees and orders of the Slovak National Council, together with the draft of declaration on the reconciliation, invoke historical topics, the character of which was determined by politicians and journalists. The result was the adoption of a problematic resolution of the National Council of the Slovak Republic on the untouchability of the post-war legislation, which declared the untouchability of acts long since modified. In spite of positive meetings between the Slovak and Hungarian Prime-Ministers, further development brought sharpening of Slovak-Hungarian interstate and intra-state relationships.
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