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The Vesels : the fate of a Czechoslovak family in twentieth-century central Europe (1918--1989) /
This book deals with the Slovak National Uprising that was launched on 29 August 1944 in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. In the West, the uprising is an under-researched topic in the history of WWII. The Slovak state was an ally of Nazi Germany, but the uprising proved that the population did not share...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- X. Introduction
- X.1 Method, Key Contexts, Research Questions
- X.1.1 Method: Contextual Biography
- X.1.2 Research Questions
- X.2 The 'Victorious February of 1948' and its Conse-quences for the Historiography of the SNP
- Oral His-tory Interview with Dr Ivan Kamenec, Department of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences (HÚ SAV)
- I. The Vesel Family (1862-1939)
- I.1 Ján Vesel
- Pater Familias and Slovak Patriot (1862-1931)
- I.2 The Czechoslovak Spirit of the Vesel Family
- II. WWII and the SNP (1939-1944)
- II. 1 The Slovak State in the Context of 20th-Century Cen-tral Europe
- II. 2 Čatlos and Beneš
- Obedience and Resistance? (1939-1943)
- II. 3 Preparations (1943-1944)
- II. 3.1 The SNR and the Christmas Treaty of 1943
- II. 3.2 To Arms! (29 August 1944, 1 September 1944)
- II. 3.3 Women in the SNP
- III. After the Uprising (1945-1990)
- III. 1 Escape
- III. 2 Manual Labour and Imprisonment
- Conclusion
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Index