Between the Czech Lion and the Soviet Star : The State-law Ideas of Slovak Communists during the Second World War

Abstract

This paper focuses on ideas and controversies among Slovak Communists in the state-law question of Slovakia during the Second World War. The paper specifically concentrates on ideas of the V.

Illegal Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia and vision of incorporation Slovakia as the Federal Republic into the Soviet Union.

Keywords

• Soviet Slovakia
• Communist Party of Slovakia
• Slovak communism
• World War II
• Communist resistance
• Slovakia
• Czechoslovakia
• Czech-Slovak relations
• Jan Osoha
• Karol Smidke
• Gustav Husak