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050 00 $aDB2763$b.T66 2001
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100 1 $aToma, Peter A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50014863
245 10 $aSlovakia :$bfrom Samo to Dzurinda /$cPeter A. Toma and Dušan Kováč.
260 $aStanford, CA :$bHoover Institution Press,$c2001.
300 $axxxi, 432 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies of nationalities
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [363]-403) and indexes.
505 00 $tForeword /$rWayne S. Vucinich --$gPt. 1.$tFrom Early Medieval History to the Early Nineteenth Century.$g1.$tFrom the Slovaks' Slavic Ancestors to National Renaissance.$g2.$tThe Emergence of a Modern Slovak Nation --$gPt. 2.$tThe Rise and Fall of the Czechoslovak Republic.$g3.$tThe Struggle for the Creation of Czechoslovakia (1914-1918).$g4.$tSlovakia in the Pre-Munich Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1939).$g5.$tThe Munich Crisis and the Disintegration of Czechoslovakia (1938-1939).$g6.$tSlovakia During World War II (1939-1945) --$gPt. 3.$tAfter World War II.$g7.$tThe Slovak Question in Postwar Czechoslovakia.$g8.$tThe Communist Dictatorship.$g9.$tSlovak Participation in the Prague Spring.$g10.$tThe Period of "Normalization" Under Gustav Husak's Leadership --$gPt. 4.$tFrom One-Party Dictatorship to Political Pluralism.$g11.$tThe Crumbling Wall of Socialism and the Velvet Revolution.$g12.$tThe Breakup of the Czechoslovak Federation --$gPt. 5.$tIndependent Slovakia.$g13.$tGoing It Alone in a Democracy.
505 80 $g14.$tThe End of "Democratic Tyranny"?
520 1 $a"From medieval times to the current day, historical accounts of Slovakia and the Slovak people have often been either sketchy, romanticized versions of a pastoral society or nationalistic, exaggerated exaltations of the past. Now Slovakia: From Samo to Dzurinda at last offers a true history of the Slovak people without prejudice: their struggle for national identity, their aspirations for independence and economic development, and their ambition to become a democratic state.
520 8 $aThe product of painstaking research by the authors - one a naturalized American from Slovakia and the other a Slovak historian - this book is the definitive volume for readers in the English language who wish to acquire a more sophisticated understanding about past and present Slovakia.".
520 8 $a"From the seventh-century empire of Samo, the first Slav king, to the present-day struggle for democracy, the authors detail all the region's significant history.
520 8 $aThey examine the Slovaks' Slavic ancestors and the emergence of a modern Slovak nation, the postwar communist dictatorship and the "Prague Spring," the fall of socialism from the "Velvet Revolution" to the breakup of the Czechoslovak Federation, and the ongoing process of trying to establish democratic institutions in today's independent Slovakia.".
520 8 $a"All readers - regardless of their ethnic origin or political persuasion - will find that this factual and scholarly historical survey of the Slovaks and Slovakia offers an illuminating new perspective on a people whose history has often been clouded by the interests of those who wrote about them."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aSlovakia$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123490
700 1 $aKováč, Dušan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80047071
830 0 $aStudies of nationalities.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92075571
852 00 $bglx$hDB2763$i.T66 2001