The celebrations of state holidays and commemorative days and participation of members of Hungarian minority in Rožňava in the interwar period Cover Image

Oslavy štátnych sviatkov a pamätných dní a participácia príslušníkov maďarskej menšiny v Rožňave v medzivojnovom období
The celebrations of state holidays and commemorative days and participation of members of Hungarian minority in Rožňava in the interwar period

Author(s): Lucia Poláková
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Psychology, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Civil Society, Sociology, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Labor relations, Politics and religion, Politics and society, History and theory of political science, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Social psychology and group interaction, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Nationalism Studies, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Historical revisionism, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach
Keywords: Commemorating; Celebrations; Hungarian minority; Rožňava;

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the celebrations of momentous political holidays in Rožňava in the interwar period. It mainly deals with the national holiday of establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, birthday of the President T. G. Masaryk and Labour Day. The attention is focused on the analysis of the program during the celebration and a possible national conflicts in a multi-ethnic city Rožňava. At the end of the article there are mentioned holidays celebrated in Hungary and their impact on the Hungarian minority in the southern part of the Czechoslovakia.

  • Issue Year: 4/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 62-71
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Slovak