Slovakia – A Playgroung for Nationalism and National Identity, 1918–1920

National identities and nationalism especially in the European context have aroused lots of current interest among scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines, and the topic most certainly will continue to attract further attention also in the future. A great number of the studies dealing with national identities have emphasized the long time span and the role of the national intelligentsia in the evolution of a national identity. This study uses another approach by underlining the short time span and a number of practical issues that contributed to the strenghtening of the national identity of the Slovaks during the first two years following the independence of Czechoslovakia.