The rise persistence and breakup of Czechoslovakia

The book is devoted to the issue of cultural and institutionalized ties between Czechs and Slovaks or rather Czech-Moravians and Slovakia at the state level. After all there was Czechoslovak statehood for most of the 20th century. It was created on the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian prison of nations which had been broken up in the name of pursuing the dogma of self-determination of nations. This led to the creation of Czechoslovakia where according to the prevailing ideology the state-creating nation was Czechoslovakia which was a synthesis of Czechs who had played a significant role in Central European history and Slovaks who had been under Magyar rule for many centuries.