Národní jednota versus náboženský svár
National Unity versus Religious Confl ict

Summary/Abstract: Zmatlo, Peter. Katolíci a evanjelici na Slovensku (1929–1932): Ľudáci a národniari na ceste k spolupráci. Ružomberok: Verbum, 2011, 368 pp. The author discusses the political rapprochement between Slovak Roman Catholics and Lutherans in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which took place mainly with regard to the pragmatic advocacy of national demands and culminated in the adoption of the ‘Zvolen Manifesto’ in the autumn of 1932, which demanded autonomy for Slovakia in legislative matters in Czechoslovakia. According to the reviewer, the author does a good job of conveying these complicated, dramatic events, is well oriented in the primary sources and secondary literature, and is critical in his assessments of Slovak politics, but his work fails to provide the broader central European context.

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