Foreword Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction I. The idea of Czecho-Slovak solidarity and the Czechoslovak state (1898-1918) II. The making of Czechoslovakia in Slovakia (1918-1938) III. The Slovak State and the post-war years (1939-1950) Conclusion Vavro Srobar-data Appendix Bibliography Index
Josette Baer is professor of political theory in the Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich. Dr. Milan Zemko, CSc, is a historian at the Department of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia (HU SAV). He is a renowned expert on Czechoslovak and Slovak history.
In her book, the historian Josette Baer focusses on the analysis of Vavro Srobar's political ideas and activities in Slovak domestic affairs, dominated by the prevailing zeitgeist that also reflects the intellectual currents of the time. In the first half of the 20th century, these ideas were changing and, in the years between the wars, in a way that was not always conducive to democracy and civil rights. Baer therefore also investigates the social environment and the political conditions V. Srobar and those intellectually close to him had to face. Thanks to Baer's fundamental knowledge of the historical material, her book is not only an outstanding contribution to the research on Slovak political thought of the first half of the 20th century, but also on wider political developments which in those years reached beyond the borders of Slovakia, since they were dependent on the development of the entire region of Central and Eastern Europe. -- Milan Zemko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
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