Popély Árpád: A (cseh)szlovákiai magyarság történeti kronológiája 1944-1992 - Nostra Tempora 13. (Somorja, 2006)
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706 Summary the following actions that had negative affects in Hungarian regarding: the total deprival of rights of the Hungarian minority, the loss of Czechoslovak citizenship, the confiscation of properties, deportation. Because of the Western Great Powers’ negative attitude towards the above-mentioned matters population exchanges were forced in Hungary, the inland deportation of the Hungarian population and the resettlement of people of Slovak nationality to areas originally dwelt by Hungarians were imposed and finally the procedure of reslovakization was introduced. The second chapter deals with the period between October 1948 and April 1963, when there were attempts to the partial solution of the Hungarians’ problems according to party decisions. There were some attempts made to ensure equal rights at least formally, to re-integrate the Hungarian population to the political, social and economical life of the state. This period involves the rebuilding of the Hungarian school network, the restart of the Hungarian media, and the foundation of the first Hungarian cultural institutions. The third chapter deals with the reformation of the communist system, the regularization of the Czech-Slovak relationship and the normalization of the Hungarian minority’s situation between April 1963 and April 1969. Interest protecting endeavours were more strongly emphasized in the activities of the Hungarian minority’s cultural organization - Csemadok, which, at the time of Prague Spring in 1968, led to the composition of demands concerned with collective minority rights and principles of self-adjustment as well as to the acceptance of minority constitutional law. The fourth chapter involves the reform-process-liquidating two decades of normalization between April 1969 and November 1989, marked with the name of Gustáv Husák. The nationality organs founded in 1968 ceased or became formal in the era of normalization and there were not any possibilities for the vindication of the constitutionally guaranteed minority rights. Especially the rights declaring minority language usage and school system were attacked that redeemed the illegal foundation of the Legal Aid Committee of the Hungarian Minority in Czechoslovakia. The fifth part of the chronology processes three years between November 1989 and December 1992, including the downfall of communist regime, the cessation of Czechoslovakia and the early development period of the institutional system of the Hungarian minority. During the years after the change of the regime, the Hungarian minority society went through a more radical change than during the four-decade-long period of the party state: there were not only political changes but also the structure of its cultural, educational and scientific life went through great alterations together with its institutional structure. There are indicators at the end of the chronology, creating an organic part of it, which intend to provide help in better understanding its data.
