The Making of the Slovak People’s Party

Religion, Nationalism and the Culture War in Early 20th-Century Europe

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ID23548322
AuthorsThomas Lorman
Year2019
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Making of the Slovak People’s Party (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350109407
OpenAlexW4255469016
ISBN9781350109407
LanguageEN
Citations received5

In 1945, just six years after coming to power, the Slovak People's Party (SLS) was disbanded as a 'criminal organisation' and its leader - Jozef Tiso - hanged for treason. What made it possible for the SLS, initially founded in 1905 by priests to represent the Catholic Slovak minority residing in the north of the Kingdom of Hungary, to form an openly pro-Nazi government in 1939? And what put Slovakia on the path to a 'fascism' that would see more than 45,000 Jews deported to their deaths in 1942? To answer these questions, Thomas Lorman draws on more than a decade's research in archives across the region in Hungarian, Slovak and Latin, and studies the party's formative years in depth for the first time in English. Lorman examines the various strands which fused to form the party and its popularity, including a complex and nebulous nationalism, Catholicism and a resounding

Czech · Government (linguistics) · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Slovak · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Philosophy

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