Kényszer hatása alatt : A (cseh)szlovákiai magyarság története a számok tükrében. Népszámlálások, választások és iskolák 1919–2024
Under duress. The history of the (Czecho)Slovak Hungarians in the mirror of numbers. Censuses, elections and schools 1919–2024

Author(s): Attila Baki, László Gyurovszky
Subject(s): Politics, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Keywords: Hungarian minority; Czechoslovakia/Slovakia; elections; censuses; Hungarian parties; Hungarian schools; Hungarians in Slovak schools
Summary/Abstract: The book was written and is being published at a time when Hungarian politics in Slovakia is, in the opinion of many, at a crossroads. The authors of Under the Influence of Necessity do not hide their (sometimes controversial) views on the current situation and possible ways out, but the result of their work, organized in a book, is not a political pamphlet. The assessment of the crisis and the proposal for a way out are not based on superficial impressions, but on a wealth of figures, which the authors have painstakingly compiled and organized over many years. Thanks to these data, the interested reader can turn the pages of this volume even if he or she does not share the authors' conclusions. The reader will be able to get a comprehensive picture of the census and school statistics of the Hungarian minority in (Czecho)Slovakia, which now goes back more than a hundred years. For those interested in the profession and minority politics, the main contribution of the volume lies in the more detailed and newly processed data series than previous research, which provide a plastic picture of the parliamentary, European and regional elections from 1920 to the present, as well as the performance of parties that can be defined as Hungarian and the composition of their electoral base.

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