Ihor Gawdiak, ed. Czechoslovakia: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress,
1987.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
EARLY HISTORY
First Political Units
Magyar Invasion
Bohemian Kingdom
Hussite Movement
HAPSBURG RULE, 1526-1867
The Hapsburgs and the Czechoslovak Lands
Hapsburg Absolutism and the Bohemian Estates
Initial Clash
Decisive Battle
Consequences of Czech Defeat
Enlightened Absolutism
National Revival
Revolutions of 1848
THE DUAL MONARCHY, 1867-1918
Formation of the Dual System
Austria and the Czechs
Hungary and the Slovaks
The Czechoslovak Idea
World War I
The Emergence of Subcarpathian Ruthenia
THE CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC, 1918-39
Features of the New State
Czechoslovak Democracy
The Constitution of 1920
Political Parties
Problem of Dissatisfied Nationalities
Slovak Autonomy
Conflict in Subcarpathian Ruthenia
Sudetenland
Eduard Benes
Munich
Second Republic, 1938-39
THE WAR YEARS, 1939-45
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Government-in-Exile
Czech Resistance
Slovak Republic
Slovak Resistance
Soviet Annexation of Subcarpathian Ruthenia
Minorities and Population Transfers
COMMUNIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Third Republic and the Communist Takeover
Stalinization
The Reform Movement
The Prague Spring, 1968
Intervention
Normalization
Preserving the Status Quo
Dissent and Independent Activity
Bibliography
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