Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History. Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century

0487418 - MÚA 2018 RIV DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Rychlík, Jan
Jozef Tiso: My Enemy – Your Hero?
Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History. Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century. Stuttgart: ibidem, 2017 - (Vít, M.; Baran, M.), s. 189-214. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPSS), 170. ISBN 978-3-8382-1015-5
Institutional support: RVO:67985921
Keywords : Jozef Tiso * historiography
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The paper investigates the lengthy and heated debate on the role of Jozef Tiso, the president of the war-time Slovak State, in Slovak history. First, the author presents a brief biography of Tiso, focusing primarily on his ascension to the presidential seat and role in the 1939 splitting of Czechoslovakia, as well as general characteristics of his political conceptions. Further, the author discusses the changing preception of Tiso in after-war Czechoslovakia and his post-mortem rise in prominence in autonomous Slovakia after 1993.
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