Tomášová, Ľubomíra
(2025)
The Influence of the Wartime Slovak State on the Contemporary: Nationalist Narratives in Slovakia.
Master thesis, Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation.
Abstract
The Slovak state (1939-1945) was an authoritarian regime during which Slovak government
collaborated with Nazi Germany and became complicit in the Holocaust. Since the World
War II ended, both socialist regime of Czechoslovakia and later democratic Slovak Republic
had different approaches to dealing with the heritage of the Slovak state. Especially
democracy, with all its challenges, provided a fertile ground for different nationalist political
parties and movements and even for the nationalist agenda of the Church representatives.
Through symbols, metaphors and even references to that “glorious” past, they aim to alter
collective national memory to seize or maintain the power. However, over the years their
means of targeting as well as their targets adapted to the current national and global issues
and found new “state enemies”. Additionally, Slovak history exhibits how easily people in
power can switch ideologies and enemies, and how the idea of Christian nationalism is still to
this day a force capable of mobilizing people in the name of fabricated national memory and
national belonging.
| Type: |
Thesis
(Master)
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| Supervisors (RUG): |
| Supervisor | E-mail | Tutor organization | Tutor email |
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| Weir, T.H. | | Faculteit GGW, Christendom en Ideeengeschiedenis | T.H.Weir@rug.nl | | Wilson, E.K. | | Faculteit GGW, Faculteit Religie, Cultuur en Maatschappij | E.K.Wilson@rug.nl |
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| Degree programme: |
Master Religion Conflict and Globalisation |
| Academic year: |
2024-2025 |
| Date of delivery: |
03 Feb 2026 10:48 |
| Last modified: |
03 Feb 2026 10:48 |
| URI: |
https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/868 |
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