Kwestia słowacka a polityka narodowościowa Królestwa Węgier w latach 1848 – 1918
The issue of Slovak and Hungarian nationality policy of Hungarian Kingdom in the years 1948 – 1918

Summary/Abstract: This text refers to the origins of the Slovak national consciousness, which began in the nineteenth century in terms of growing Magyarization policies of the Hungarian authorities. It took place in the first period of the Austrian monarchy, and after the settlement of the Austrian court in Vienna with Hungarian elites and the formation of the Austro-Hungarian state, intensified within the Kingdom of Hungary. In response to the policy of Magyarization, nations which are not Hungarian, including Slovaks – and more specifically, their small political and cultural elites, attempted to oppose the policy of the Hungarian authorities. In the text, the author showed the formation of the Slovak national consciousness, the role of Ľudovít Štúr, Ján Kollár, and subsequent activists, politicians and people of culture in the process until 1918. He discussed a cooperation of Slovaks with other non-Hungarian nations living in the Kingdom of Hungary in fight for their rights against the nationalistic policy of the Hungarian authorities, in the circumstances bound by the Slovaks to the Czech Republic in the period preceding the outbreak of the First World War and the years of its duration – especially at the turn of 1917 and 1918, which eventually led to the proclamation on October 28th, 1918, in Prague, the Czechoslovak Republic as one of the new states of the Central Europe, founded on the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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