1956 a szlovák történelemkönyvekben

Az 1956-tal kapcsolatos szlovák reakciót két szinten kell elemeznünk: egyrészt a politikai elitek, másrészt pedig a társadalom szintjén. Bár Szlovákia Csehszlovákia része volt, a társadalom politikai konfliktusai sajátos karakterrel bírtak

Political party “Smer” - in between “pragmatism” and social democracy

The article analyses the evolution of the Slovak political party „Smer“ (Direction) and its position in the party system of Slovak Republic. The article focuses on the shift of the party program from the „Centrist Populism“ towards „Social Democracy.“ According to the first program documents the Party of „Smer“ (Direction) was designed as pragmatic, non-ideological party. In the persistent conflict between authoritarianism vs. democracy “Smer” identified itself as the pro-democratic and pro-market force. Party policy before 2002 contained only few social democratic components; it was closer to the conservative or right-wing populist parties. After the parliamentary election 2002 and the failure of non-communist left “Smer” decided to become a member of the Socialist International (SI) and Party of European Socialists (PES). The process of the institutional approach to the international Social Democratic Party structures was accompanied by the substantial changes in the social and economic program of the party. The process was completed on the institutional level in May 2005, when Smer joined both SI and PES, and on the level of political program on the Party Congress in December 2005. In the process of so called “socialdemocratisation” of “Smer” the international factor played crucial role, especially the need to have an international partner in the European Parliament. “Smer” met the standards of the Social Democratic identity only in the social and economic affairs. The other five dimensions - environmental policy, participative democracy, cultural and human-rights dimension, supra-national dimension and the dimension of equality and freedom “Smer” met only partially or not at all, so these process remains unfinished. According to some political declarations „Smer“ remains the populist party and the uncompromising critic of the right-wing government of Mikuláš Dzurinda, on the other side the official documents of the party anticipate only the moderate corrections of the economical and social reforms, implemented by the present Slovak government

Spáč, Peter: Priama a zastupiteľská demokracia na Slovensku. Volebné reformy a referendá po roku 1989. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2010, 278 strán, ISBN: 978-80-7325-238-0.

Knižní recenze / Book review

1956 a szlovák történelemkönyvekben

Az 1956-tal kapcsolatos szlovák reakciót két szinten kell elemeznünk: egyrészt a politikai elitek, másrészt pedig a társadalom szintjén. Bár Szlovákia Csehszlovákia része volt, a társadalom politikai konfliktusai sajátos karakterrel bírtak

Spáč, Peter: Priama a zastupiteľská demokracia na Slovensku. Volebné reformy a referendá po roku 1989. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2010, 278 strán, ISBN: 978-80-7325-238-0.

Knižní recenze / Book review

Dobrí Slováci, dobrí občania svojej krajiny? Vojvodinskí Slováci na periférii slovenského a srbského nacionalizmu

The topic of the paper is the perception of members of the Slovak community in Vojvodina in Slovak and Serbian society. The paper analyses the content of narratives that are created about members of the community and the way they are created. In the Slovak environment, the image of the community is constructed mainly from “above”, through historical and political discourses, while its presence has been disappearing from the Slovak consciousness since the second half of the 20th century. In the Serbian environment, its image is shaped mainly from “below”, on the basis of immediate interactions between its members and the majority population

Slovensko ako bezpečná krajina z pohľadu vojvodinských Slovákov

Cieľom príspevku je analýza percepcie ohrozenia v prostredí príslušníkov slovenskej komunity v Srbsku, predovšetkým v autonómnej provincii Vojvodina. Príspevok vychádza z dostupných štatistických údajov, ako aj z hĺbkových rozhovorov s príslušníkmi komunity vojvodinských Slovákov, žijúcich dlhodobo alebo prechodne na území Slovenska

Migration of the Slovak Community Members of Vojvodina: Inter- and Intra-Ethnic Context / Migrácie príslušníkov komunity vojvodinských Slovákov: inter- a intraetnický kontext

Migrations of the Slovak community members of Vojvodina from Serbia to Slovakia are conditioned and shaped by complex interrelated social, political and economic processes. The members of the Slovak community in Vojvodina began to move to Slovakia in the early 1990s in connection with the violent ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and the second wave was triggered by the global financial crisis in 2008, which seriously affected Serbia and intensified after 2015. The Vojvodina Slovak community is scattered: some of its members have remained in Serbia, some have temporarily settled in Slovakia for a longer or shorter period of time, while others have moved to Slovakia permanently. Many of them are “both here and there”. The aim of our presentation is to analyse the above migrations and their course and consequences in the context of interethnic relations in Serbia, but also within the intra-ethnic context of Slovakia. The migrations of Vojvodina Slovaks represent a type of co-ethnic migrations, which are considered to be ethnically privileged. The migrants are of the same ethnicity as the population of the receiving country. Although in such a case a simple integration process could be expected, ambivalent elements appear in intra-ethnic interactions. Migrations also contribute to a reframing of the relationship towards Serbia and/or the Yugoslav heritage. In the discourse of our interlocutors, their inter- (in Serbia) and intra-ethnic (in Slovakia) interactions are the subject of comparison and they often lead to the formation of a triangle (Serbs, Slovaks in Slovakia, Vojvodina Slovaks), which we analyse in our presentation

Slovenská komunita v Srbsku v kontexte politických a socioekonomických zmien po roku 1989

The aim of this article is to analyze an impact of political and socio-economic changes after 1989 on the Slovak community members of Serbia. Serbia, as well as Slovakia, underwent a painful post-communist transformation, however, both countries adopted a different path of reforms. In 2004, Slovakia joined European Union, whereas Serbia received a status of EU-candidate state only in 2012. Because of an economic growth and decline of unemployment rate, Slovakia became an attractive target of labor migrations from Serbia, including Slovak community members from Serbian province of Vojvodina. The political changes in Serbia in 1990 and after 2000 improved the political rights of the Slovak minority members, however, the economic situation contributed to the acceleration of the de-population of the areas inhabited by Slovaks of Vojvodina.Stará Pazova v premenách času : zborník z rovnomenného sympózia z príležitosti minuloročného okrúhleho jubilea mesta dňa 29. mája 2021 (eds. Miroslav Kmeť, Patrik Kuneceds)