Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Preface: Slovakia, Slovaks and their history / Du�san Kov�a�c; 2. The Duchy of Nitra / J�an Steinh�ubel; 3. The beginnings of the nobility in Slovakia / J�an Luka�cka; 4. Medieval towns / Vladimir Sege�s; 5. Renaissance and humanist tendencies in Slovakia / Eva Frimmov�a; 6. The period of religious disturbances / Viliam �Ci�caj; 7. The Enlightenment and beginnings of the modern Slovak nation / Eva Kowalsk�a; 8. Slovak Slavism and Pan-Slavism / �Ludovit Haraksim; 9. The Slovak political programme--from Hungarian patriotism to the Czech-Slovak state / Du�san Kov�a�c; 10. Slovakia in Czechoslovakia (1918-1938) / Nat�alia Kraj�covi�cov�a; 11. Slovakia from the Munich conference to the declaration of independence / Valeri�an Bystrick�y; 12. The Slovak state of 1939-1945 / Ivan Kamenec; 13. The Slovak question and the resistance movement during the Second World War / Jan Rychli;k; 14. The Slovak National Uprising in 1944 / Vilem Pre�can; 15. The Slovak question after the Second World War / Michal Barnovsk�y; 16. Czechoslovakism in Slovak history / Elisabeth Bakke; 17. Magyar minority in Slovakia before and after the Second World War / �Stefan �Sutaj; 18. The establishment of totalitarianism in Slovakia after the February coup of 1948 and the culmination of mass persecution (1948-1953) / Jan Pe�sek; 19. Slovakia and the attempt to reform socialism in Czechoslovakia 1963-1969 / Stanislav Sikora; 20. The position of Slovakia in the Czech-Slovak Federation / Jozef �Zatkuliak; 21. Slovakia under the communist dictatorship 1948-1989 : controversial development in the economic, social, and cultural fields / Miroslav Lond�ak and Elena Lond�akov�a; 22. The fall of communism and independent Slovakia / Michal �Stefansk�y; 23. Afterword / Mikul�a�s Teich.

"Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992-1993. Leading scholars chart the gradual ethnic awakening of the Slovaks during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and examine how Slovak national identity took shape with the codification of standard literary Slovak in 1843 and the subsequent development of the Slovak national movement. They show how, after a thousand years of Magyar-Slovak coexistence, Slovakia became part of the new Czechoslovak Republic from 1918-1939 and shed new light on its role as a Nazi client state as well as on the postwar developments leading up to full statehood in the aftermath of the collapse of Communism in 1989. There is no comparable book in English on the subject"--Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.