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Demography and population localization of the Hungarian ethnic group in SlovakiaThe publication presents an outline of changes in the numerical force and localization of Hungarian population in Slovakia in the period between the separation of Slovaks from Hungary in 1918 to 1950.This is a crucial problem constituting a basis for considering the complex Hungarian question n Slovakia in that time. The...
People’s movemet in Bulgaria in the years 1914-1944The years 1914-1944 are an extremely uneasy period in the history of Bulgaria, not only in the national context, but also on a international scale. It was a time of two massive military conflicts which swept across Europe and inevitably involved Bulgaria. It was also a time of several political crises and coup d’etats. The history of Bulgarian people’s...
Modifications of the Bulgarian – Greek border in the 20th century (1913-1947)The text concentrates on presenting territory and border conflicts between Bulgaria and Greece, which were discussed during three international peace conferences. The first one, held in the summer of 1913 in Bukarest after the second Balkan war that ended in Bulgaria’s defeat, deprived the country of part of Aegean Macedonia...
Poland’s diplomatic battle for Eastern Galicia in the years 1918‑1923A number of local conflicts surfaced during World War I. Numerous countries stood for their rights, and that led to arguments which could not be solved peacefully. Battles for dominance over a certain area, for territories, for borders, broke out all over Europe. The end of the Great War was not the end of those conflicts, one of...
Around the genealogy of Lithuanians. At the origins of myth and historical-cultural argumentThe article covers issues concerning the origins of the Lithuanian nation. Genealogical questions relating to Lithuanians already began to appear in late medieval (Jan Długosz) Polish historiography in connection to successive unions. The inner and foreign policies of the 16th and 17th centuries made those...
The Curzon line as Poland’s eastern border – origin and political conditionsThe article is devoted to the forming of the contemporary eastern border of Poland, named in the subject literature “the Curzon line”. Its geographical location was put forward by Lord Curzon, British Foreign Minister at the time. It was not put to practice then. The conception was raised again during the last stage of World...
History of the Soviet secret police in Volyn is a perfect example to illustrate the main problems of Soviet power in controlling the newly incorporated and also hostile to the USSR territory. On the one hand, we are dealing with an extremely efficient reproduction of power structures, but on the other hand we are dealing with a shortage and an exceptionally poor quality of personnel forming the new...
Knowledge of communism, so carefully presented in the best and the most famous work of Milovan Ðilas entitled The New Class. An Analysis of the Communist System, New York, 1957, undoubtedly resulted from his previous political practice and theoretical reflections. In the years 1941-1949, Ðilas was both a politician and one of the main ideologists and propagandists of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia...
The issue of the presented article is a continuation of the author’s reflections concerning Central Europe in recent history. The main attention in this article was focused on a small, in terms of area and population, the historical-geographical region, which is Prekmurje. Till World War I it belonged to two western Hungarian administrative units of Vas and Zala, and together with the adjoining Porabje...
Lajos Kossuth Letters written for The New York Times in the years 1853-1856 are short essays commenting on current political, social, ethnic and military events associated with the ongoing Crimean War. Originally entitled Democratic Letters on European Matters and American Policy and then Letters from L. Kossuth, written in exile in England during the Crimean War in Europe, create a very specific...
Józef Piłsudski Institute was founded in New York, July 4, 1943. The main aim was to maintain constant and independent scientific research facility dealing not only with collecting and organizing historical documents, but also with popularizing unadulterated knowledge about Poland and its recent history. From its earliest days the Institute was based on financial support granted by Polish activists...
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