Angyal Béla: Érdekvédelem és önszerveződés. Fejezetek a csehszlovákiai magyar pártpolitika történetéből 1918-1938 - Nostra Tempora 6. (Galánta-Dunaszerdahely, 2002)
Magyar-szlovák helységnévjegyzék
344 Summary Summary Béla Angyal Organizing National Minority and it's Self-defence Chapters from the history of the Hungarian party policy in Czechoslovakia between 1918-1938 In his work, the author reveals such fields of the history of Hungarian parties in Czechoslovakia between the two World Wars that have not been known up to these days. Building on the archive sources in Hungary and Slovakia, in the first place he is looking for the answer to the question how the political institutional system of a social group - that had not existed until that time - has been formed; how the Hungarian people - who found themselves in the minority position - established their political parties; and what roles the certain Upper Hungarian politicians played in this process; and/or what strategies the certain parties followed. Then he examines the relationship between the Hungarian government and the Hungarian parties in Czechoslovakia. In connection with the electoral results he examines what electoral support the Hungarian parties in Czechoslovakia had within the Hungarian community. He examines the state of the Hungarian people living Czechoslovakia, but mainly in Slovakia, but he also deals with Sub-Carpathian relations and the electoral results from that area; for the Hungarian parties in Czechoslovakia closely co-operated with the Germans in Spis, and/or the National Christian-Socialist Party had a German division, this is why he introduces the German people in Slovakia. The first elections to the Czechoslovak National Assembly in 1920 had a strong influence on the establishment of parties from the circles of Hungarian people - that found themselves in minority position - in Czechoslovakia. After the dismay of the preceding months the members of the Hungarian minority realised that that was not the case of a temporary situation, but a change of power, and that they had to arrange their lives for living permanently in a
