The Magyar minority in Slovakia before and after the Second World War

Šutaj, Štefan

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“…In the immediate post-war period, state policies explicitly aimed at either removing or "Slovakizing" ethnic Hungarians within Czechoslovak borders. 60 This state-sponsored subjugation ended in 1948 with the beginning of the Czechoslovak Communist regime, which supported ethnic Hungarian cultural and linguistic activities 61 ; thus, Slovakia became an independent and democratic state with an ethnic Hungarian minority that was cohesive, differentiated from the Slovak majority, and closely linked to Hungary. 62 From the Hungarian perspective, the Treaty of Trianon is still viewed as the "the biggest tragedy of [Hungarian] history," 63 since it left 3.5 million ethnic Hungarians living in historical Hungarian lands outside of the now significantly smaller state of Hungary, many in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia.…”

Section: Slovakia As a Potential Tribalist Hotbedmentioning

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Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case

Hartikainen,

Szebeni

2023

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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We define tribalism as a mode of articulation that draws an antagonistic frontier between societal groups. Unlike populism, tribalism does not have a hegemonic character. It articulates groups through a horizontally oriented shared value system; whereas populism is an essential part of a democratic system, tribalism disregards democracy. To conceptualize tribalism as a separate theoretical frame from populism or (ethno)nationalism, we used discourse theoretical analysis to analyze the Facebook pages of four political party leaders in Slovakia (Marian Kotleba, Krisztián Forró, Igor Matovic, and Boris Kollár). Kotleba’s page showed tribalistic features by articulating an antagonistic divide between “us,” the people, linked by shared values and identities, and anyone who does not share those values, or “them.” His representation of his party’s fight against oppressive forces combined with their apathetic stance toward democracy makes them a prime example of a tribalist party. While populism is an ever-expanding area of research and a framework widely used to analyze political entities and events, it is a word often thrown around and thus overused. Tribalism offers an alternative approach to analyze political instances in a national and transnational context in a more nuanced way and gain a better understanding of previously overlooked phenomena.

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Section: Slovakia As a Potential Tribalist Hotbedmentioning

confidence: 99%