Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1977 (5. évfolyam, 13-15. szám)
1977 / 15. szám
HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION 177 Somerset Street P.O. Box 1084, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Address Correction Requested Return Postage Guaranteed Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 257 DISSERTATIONS (Continued) This Czech-Slovak connection was disrupted by the adoption of a distinct Slovak literary medium in the 1840s and by the development of a separate Slovak national movement. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, a revival occurred in Czech-Slovak cultural contacts to counteract Germanization and Magyarization. The bases of a broad, concrete Slovakophile movement were laid by a Czech school teacher, Karel Kalal (1860-1930). He was a fanatic Czech^ nationalist who was instrumental in the founding of the “Ceskoslovanská jednota" (Czechoslovak Union) in 1896, a Czech organization to support Czech-Slovak reciprocity. Kalal was one of the first persons to describe the Magyarization of the Slovaks to the outside world. He also, pointed out the negative influence of the Jews and the gentry HUNGARIAN REFERENCE SHELF A series of inexpensive publications facilitating Hungarianrelated research for the English speaking scholar. 1. HUNGARIAN ETHNOGRAPHY: A Bibliography of English Language Sources, by David R. Howell (University of Virginia), 1976. 319 entries, 24 pages. $1.80 plus 204 handling, $2.00 2 EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES AND FILMSTRIPS RELATED TO HUNGARY AND HUNGARIAN SUBJECTS. Compiled by Joseph Széplaki (University of Minnesota), 1976. 48 entries, in issue no. 11 of the HSN. $1.50 plus 204 handling, $1.70. 3. HUNGARIAN ECONOMIC REFORMS: A Selective, Partially Annotated Bibliography, by Gabriel F. Horchler (Library of Congress), 1977. 1,620 entries, 190 pages. $4.95 paper; $8.95 cloth. 4. MASTER’S THESES RELATED TO HUNGARY AND HUNGARIANS ACCEPTED IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Compiled by Joseph Sze'plaki; and UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ON HUNGARIANCANADIANS: A Preliminary Check List of Theses. Compiled by John P. Miska. Both: 1977.53 entries in issue no. 13 of the HSN. $1.50 plus 204 handling, $1.70. 5. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HUNGARIAN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Compiled by Andrew Kerek (Miami University). In Preparation. Order; HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION Post Office Box 1084 New Brunswick, NJ 08903 in Hungary on the Slovak national movement. He urged Czechs to act on behalf of the Slovaks. His collaboration with T.G. Masaryk resulted in his writing two books: one on the exposure of Magyarization among the Slovaks, and one criticizing the rather passive and Russophile leadership of the Slovak national movement. Although Kalal’s work had the immediate effect of antagonizing the older generation of Slovak nationalists, in the long run the young Slovak Czechophiles prevailed. Kalal’s work prepared the ground for the “Czechoslovak” movement during World War I, though the Slovaks eventually rejected “Czechoslovakism” in favor of Slovak national identity. Linden, Ronald Haly (Princeton U., 1976) “Normative Integration in an International Region: East Europe and Romania, 1965-1969.” 377 pages. Microfilm and xerox order no. 77-2,154. An attempt to uncover the factors underlying policy deviance is made both on a comparative basis and through a case study of Romania. Using two indices of deviance, one for attitudes and one for interactions, the study of the region shows the following results: (1) level of internal threat to regime legitimacy is related to deviance on both attitudes and interactions; (2) level of economic development is related to deviance on international integration only; (3) military/geographic position is related inversely to deviance on interactions, but no such association is found for attitudes. The study presents two other aspects of deviance. First, the members of the Warsaw Pact display a substantial lack of uniformity in international interactions and of consensus in international attitudes. Second, member states are freqeuntly inconsistent in their own foreign policy. Ironically, Romania and the G DR are the most consistent in their foreign policies. In the Romanian case the issue of economic development and the party’s need for legitimacy proved to be catalytic factors in deviance. Several other aspects of Romania’s internal and international milieu promoted deviance, (a) The Romanian ability to reduce its trade/aid dependence on the Soviet Union, and its relatively low level of vulnerability to manipulation of such dependence by Moscow; (b) a related factor, the strong natural resource position of the country; (c) the regime’s internal unity, orthodoxy and totality of control both within the party and in the country at large; (d) the presence and growth of the Sino- Soviet schism; (e) the relative weakness and insecurity of the Soviet leadership at key times in the development of Romanian policy; and (f) paradoxically, the extremely poor, and hence “secure” geographical position of the country. 8 NO. 15, 1977-78, HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
