Central European Crossroads

Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-395-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 546 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 843 g

Reihe: International Studies in Social History

During the four decades of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia a vast literature on working-class movements has been produced but it has hardly any value for today’s scholarship. This remarkable study reopens the field. Based on Czech, Slovak, German and other sources, it focuses on the history of the multi-ethnic social democratic labor movement in Slovakia’s capital Bratislava during the period 1867-1921, and on the process of national revolution during the years 1918–19 in particular. The study places the historic change of the former Pressburg into the modern Bratislava in the broader context of the development of multinational pre-1918 Hungary, the evolution of social, ethnic, and political relations in multi-ethnic Pressburg (a ‘tri-national’ city of Germans, Magyars, and Slovaks), and the development of the multinational labor movement in Hungary and the Habsburg Empire as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duin, Pieter C. van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

PART I: CONTEXTS, 1867–1918

Chapter 1. Defining the issue

Chapter 2. In ‘darkest Hungary’

Chapter 3. Pressburg: a multi-ethnic crossroads

Chapter 4. Social democracy and the national question

PART II: EVENTS, 1918–1919

Chapter 5. Revolution and reorientation: October–December 1918

Chapter 6. From Hungary to Czechoslovakia: January 1919

Chapter 7. Hope and hatred: February 1919

Chapter 8. Protest and pragmatism after the February crisis

PART III: RESULTS, 1919–1921

Chapter 9. Social democracy triumphant and fragmented

Chapter 10. Conclusions and perspectives

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Duin, Pieter C. van
Pieter C. van Duin studied and worked at the University of Leiden in the 1970s and 1980s. At present he works as an independent historian based in Leiden and Bratislava, Slovakia. His research in social history is mainly concerned with problems of ethnic relations, cultural issues, nationalism, and racism.