Szétfejlődés a történelem sodrásában. A legújabb kori történelmi események eltérő hatása a szlovák és a magyar politikai gondolkodásra
Divergence in History: The Different Impact of Contemporary Events on Slovakian and Hungarian Political Thinking

Summary/Abstract: An interdisciplinary research program of political science and history addresses the question, to which extent historical events determine the evolution of a given community’s political culture. Present study approaches this issue by comparing 20th-century Hungarian and Slovak history and political thinking. From the analysis it can be seen that the idea of national (community) emancipation and individual emancipation were often confronted with each other, and this divide was further reinforced by the cultural cleavage between traditionalism and modernism. In contrast, in Slovak political thinking, the national and individual agendas of the emancipation of society were intertwined, moreover, the “national thought” found allies in the representatives of modernism. Thus, cleavages within Slovak politics did not deepen in the way that can be observed in the Hungarian case. However, the peculiar development of the Slovak political culture has led to weak ideological schemes to be followed by the voters and to form political preferences, which results in a fluid and unstable political structure.

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