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A Place In This World: Minority Nation-Building In Interwar Czechoslovakia, Shelby Wise
A Place In This World: Minority Nation-Building In Interwar Czechoslovakia, Shelby Wise
History Theses
An in-depth analysis of Slovak, German, Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Jewish minority struggles with the Czech majority within the First Czechoslovak Republic. Each minority faced their own unique set of issues with both the new government and each other due to long-standing historical grievances. These issues hindered the overall development of the new nation-state and helped usher in the Munich Crisis on the eve of WWII, which effectively ended the short life of the First Republic.