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"After Hitler, Before Stalin" examines the crucial postwar period
in Slovakia, following Nazi occupation and ending with the
Communist coup of February1948. Centering his work around the major
political role of the Catholic Church and its leaders, James Ramon
Felak offers a fascinating study of the interrelationship of Slovak
Catholics, Democrats, and Communists. He provides an in-depth
examination of Communist policies toward Catholics and their
strategies to court Catholic voters, and he chronicles the variety
of political stances Catholics maintained during Slovakia's
political turmoil.
Felak opens by providing a background on pre-war and wartime Slovak
politics, notably the rise of Slovak Catholic nationalism and
Slovakia's alignment with Nazi Germany during World War II. He then
describes the union formed in the famed "April Agreement" of 1946
between the Democratic Party and Catholics that guaranteed a
landslide victory for the Democrats and insured a position for
Catholics in the new regime. Felak views other major political
events of the period, including: the 1947 Czechoslovak war crimes
trial of Father Jozef Tiso; education policy; the treatment of the
Hungarian minority; the trumped-up "anti-state conspiracy" movement
led by police in the Fall of 1947; and the subsequent Communist
putsch.
Through extensive research in Slovak national archives, including
those of the Democratic and Communist parties, After Hitler, Before
Stalin assembles a comprehensive study of the predominant political
forces and events of this tumultuous period and the complex
motivations behind them.
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