Slovakia: History

This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the Duchy of Nitra's ninth-century origins to the establishment of independent Slovakia at midnight 1992–1993. There is no comparable book in English on the subject.

2nd ed.
This classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. Now fully updated, this edition also examines the vagaries of Slovak post-Communist politics that led to Slovakia's membership in NATO and the European Union.

This book presents much of the history of Slovakia while narrating the story of the author's family, one of the most notable in the country's history. Part genealogy, part historical analysis, and part immigrant story, Palka's narrative covers a span of 300 years.

The common Western view of Czechoslovakia has been that of a small nation that was sacrificed at Munich in 1938 and betrayed to the Soviets in 1948, and which rebelled heroically against the repression of the Soviet Union during the Prague Spring of 1968. Mary Heimann dispels these myths and shows how intolerant nationalism and an unhelpful sense of victimhood led Czech and Slovak authorities to discriminate against minorities, compete with the Nazis to persecute Jews and Gypsies, and pave the way for the Communist police state. This groundbreaking book should become the standard history of Czechoslovakia for years to come.

Series: Studia Historica Slovaca; 21.
353 pages. Contains illustrations and maps.