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Count János Esterházy, the Chairman of the United Hungarian Party in the debate of parliamentarians of the Czechoslovak National Assembly in 1938, the fatal year of the first Czechoslovak Republic (Esterházy's criticism of Czechoslovakia in the year of the Munich Agreement).

Publication |
2009

Abstract

The study maps speeches of Count János Esterházy, the Chairman of the United Hungarian Party in the Czechoslovak National Assembly in 1938. The author illustrates the rhetoric of leading representatives of the Hungarian minority opposition political scene, which was in opposition against the government and the state for the throughout duration of the first Czechoslovak Republic, because it disagreed with the constitutional constraints of the Czechoslovak state.