Slovenská politika na križovatke medzi Viedňou, Budapešťou a Prahou
The Slovak Politics at the Crossroad between Vienna, Budapest and Prague

Summary/Abstract: Since the Czech policy became a mere component of the westernpart of the Empire after the Compromise 1867, the Czech political elite,with an orientation to the conception of historical rights, strove for an equalnational position. As a result, they lost interest in the Slovak policy as an allyand the Slovak question as a part of a wider conceptual solution. The Slovakpoliticians with a natural right conception rejecting historic rights as “oldrubbish” were placed in a complicated situation. On the base of historicalrights there were many attempts to realize the cooperation between the partof the Czech politicians and Hungarian opposition against the Vienna court.Such cooperation, however, did not have a chance of success and only arouseddiscontent among the Slovak political elites. Slovak policy after decades on thecrossroad between Vienna, Budapest and Prague came with the beginning ofthe WW1 into the new geopolitical situation. In May 1917 the Czech politicalprogramme, for the first time, abandoned the principle of historic rights, crossedthe 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.

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