The Czech and Slovak Experience de John Morison

The Czech and Slovak Experience

John Morison

The Czech and Slovak Experience assembles essays by leading specialists from the USA, Canada, Britain and Czechoslovakia on key aspects of modern Czech and Slovak history: Joseph II's contribution to the development of the Czech national movement, the troubled relationship between Czechs and Slovaks as seen through Czech and Slovak eyes, Slovak linguistic separatism, the emergence of political democracy in post-Versailles Czechoslovakia, Masaryk as a religious heretic, Czechoslovakia's Germans and their treatment by the Czechoslovak government, and Prague's Jewish community after 1918.

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List of Tables - General Editor's Introduction - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; J.Morison - The Old Alliance: the Underpriveleged Population of Bohemia and the Habsburg Court, 1765-1790; G.Svoboda - Czechs, Slovaks and the Slovak Linguistic Separatism of the Mid-nineteenth Centuries; H.Agnew - Slovakia in the Czech Press at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; M.L.Neudorfl - Masaryk: a Religious Heretic; H.G.Skilling - The Czechoslovak Government and its 'disloyal' Opposition, 1918-1938; V.Olivov - V clav Klof c and the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party; B.Garver - Anton n Svehla: Master of Compromise; D.Miller - Slovak Considerations of the Slovak Question: the Ludak, Agrarian, Socialist and Communist Views; J.Felak - Czechoslovakia between the Wars: Democracy on Trial; Z.A.B.Zeman - Edward Benes and Czechoslovakia's German Minority, 1918-1943; M.Cornwall - The German Social Democratic Party of Czechoslovakia from Abstention to Activism; F.Hahn - Czech, German or Jew: the Jewish Community of Prague during the Interwar Period; N.Wingfield - Index