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Historical Dictionary of Slovakia

Stanislav J. Kirschbaum

出版	Scarecrow Press, 1999
主題	History / GeneralHistory / Europe / EasternReference / GeneralSocial Science / Reference
ISBN	08108350619780810835061
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=C-ZnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Slovakia is a result of the sudden splintering that occurred throughout Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Slovakia is unique though, in that it initially struggled to maintain itself after the velvet overthrow of communism in Czechoslovakia and the eventual amicable split between the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. Despite possible friction between numerous minorities in Slovakia and problems of reconfiguring economic and political principles to fit the problems of the new state, the Slovak Republik has been a model of a peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe. Though the state only officially existed beginning in 1993, the Historical Dictionary of Slovakia takes a broad view of its history, iincluding the formation of other states in between, wheter tribes, kingdoms, or its part in World War II and in the recent state of Czechoslovakia. The book includes ample coverage of its economic and political realities, as well as individuals that will figure prominently in the future course of this infant state. A brief introduction, a chronology of important historical events, and a series of five maps of early Moravian empires to commun