Századok – 2017
2017 / 4. szám - KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Gaucsík István: A Hangya a malomkövek között. Az 1930-as párizsi csehszlovák–magyar szövetkezeti egyezmény és a hozzá vezető út
A HANGYA A MALOMKÖVEK KÖZÖTT 918 THE “HANGYA” BETWEEN THE MILLSTONES The 1930 Paris Treaty on Cooperatives between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and its Preliminaries by István Gaucsík SUMMARY Cooperatives constituted an important part of the interwar economic rivalry between Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Accordingly, the present study deals with the legal and financial situation of the Hangya (Ant) cooperatives which were incorporated into the new Czechoslovak state after 1918. This topic, indeed, represents a hitherto neglected chapter in the historiography of the Hungarian minorities and the cooperatives. The author examines the relations between the Hangya and the Central Cooperative (Ústredné družstvo), the organization established to strengthen the economic position of the Slovaks. The over-politicised, tense and conflict-ridden period which existed after the change of regime gave way to a time of rapprochement in the late 1920s. Finally, an agreement concluded before the Luzern International Court of Arbitration in 1929 settled the disputed financial issues between the two cooperative centers.
