Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Reflections on Slovak History. Edited by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum and Anne C. R. Roman. Toronto: Slovak World Congress, 1987. 183 pp. $12.00

Reflections on Slovak History. Edited by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum and Anne C. R. Roman. Toronto:... BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS Reflections on Slovak History. Edited by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum and Anne C. R. Roman. Toronto: Slovak World Congress, 1987. 183 pp. $12.00. The chapters in this volume were presented originally as papers at a con- ference organized by the Slovak World Congress in 1984. The work is a collabo- rative effort at an overview of Slovak history by a group of eight authors of Slovak origin, mostly younger scholars brought up and educated in the West and "unburdened by any participation in Slovak political life" (dust jacket). The reader is led to expect an account that is not heavily partisan or politically moti- vated, and that is what he gets. The old biases that have dominated the writing of Slovak history in the past-Czech, Czechoslovak, Slovak Czechophile, Marxist, as well as the Czechophobe and militantly Catholic viewpoint of refugees from the wartime Slovak Republic-are noticeably absent. Eight chapters trace the chronological development of Slovak history from the Great Moravian Empire to contemporary Czechoslovakia. In two overlapping chapterts, Vladimir Bubrin and Theodoric J. Zfbek chronicle the Slovaks' "first state organization"-Great Moravia-and the famous mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius to it. The "leading role" of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png East Central Europe Brill

Reflections on Slovak History. Edited by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum and Anne C. R. Roman. Toronto: Slovak World Congress, 1987. 183 pp. $12.00

East Central Europe , Volume 17 (1): 115 – Jan 1, 1990
Download PDF
15 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/reflections-on-slovak-history-edited-by-stanislav-j-kirschbaum-and-swESRrW3T7

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1990 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0094-3037
eISSN
1876-3308
DOI
10.1163/187633090X00030
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS Reflections on Slovak History. Edited by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum and Anne C. R. Roman. Toronto: Slovak World Congress, 1987. 183 pp. $12.00. The chapters in this volume were presented originally as papers at a con- ference organized by the Slovak World Congress in 1984. The work is a collabo- rative effort at an overview of Slovak history by a group of eight authors of Slovak origin, mostly younger scholars brought up and educated in the West and "unburdened by any participation in Slovak political life" (dust jacket). The reader is led to expect an account that is not heavily partisan or politically moti- vated, and that is what he gets. The old biases that have dominated the writing of Slovak history in the past-Czech, Czechoslovak, Slovak Czechophile, Marxist, as well as the Czechophobe and militantly Catholic viewpoint of refugees from the wartime Slovak Republic-are noticeably absent. Eight chapters trace the chronological development of Slovak history from the Great Moravian Empire to contemporary Czechoslovakia. In two overlapping chapterts, Vladimir Bubrin and Theodoric J. Zfbek chronicle the Slovaks' "first state organization"-Great Moravia-and the famous mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius to it. The "leading role" of the

Journal

East Central Europe – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1990

There are no references for this article.