Since the Czech policy became a mere component of the western
part of the Empire after the Compromise 1867, the Czech political elite, with an orientation to the conception of historical rights, strove for an equal national position. As a result, they lost interest in the Slovak policy as an ally and the Slovak question as a part of a wider conceptual solution. The Slovak politicians with a natural right conception rejecting historic rights as “old rubbish” were placed in a complicated situation. On the base of historical rights there were many attempts to realize the cooperation between the part of the Czech politicians and Hungarian opposition against the Vienna court. Such cooperation, however, did not have a chance of success and only aroused discontent among the Slovak political elites. Slovak policy after decades on the crossroad between Vienna, Budapest and Prague came with the beginning of the WW1 into the new geopolitical situation. In May 1917 the Czech political
programme, for the first time, abandoned the principle of historic rights, crossed the river Morava and included Slovakia and the Slovaks in its sphere of interest. After the Czechoslovak Republic was declared, the struggle - propagandist, mental, military and diplomatic - for Slovakia was only beginning. and Obsahuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
The author of the study analyses the influence of the Slovak element in the Czech literary development; it aims at the interpretation of various relations and functions which represented the gates through which the Slovak literature entered the common dialogue covering understanding and mutuality, but also non-understanding and rejection. The intertextual net of language, genre and motif-structural elements is manifested on the works of several both well-known and forgotten authors.
The paper focuses on the analysis of wartime Slovak political parties’ views on Slovakia’s status after the World War II. The paper is divided into two main blocks. The first one deals with the shy plans of the Hlinka’s Slovak People’s representatives to maintain Slovak independence on a post-war map. Second one clarifies changing attitudes of resistance and its dialogues with the London and Moscow exile concerning the question of Slovak statehood in the context of expected Czechoslovakia’s rebirth after fall of the Nazi rule and in the very first months of 1945. The authors analyse complicated “behind-curtain” debates, the nature of discourse regarding the face of post-war Slovakia and Slovak question as a serious problem between the Slovak political opposition, Beneš’ exile government in London and communist exile in Moscow that shaped Czechoslovak internal policy even after liberation in May 1945.