Czechoslovak centralist parties

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Czechoslovak centralist parties were political groups in interwar Czechoslovakia that advocated a strong, unified central government and resisted efforts to grant greater autonomy to Slovakia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political alliance
political current
affectedBy Munich Agreement
rise of Slovak autonomy in 1938
aimedTo maintain territorial integrity of Czechoslovakia
conflictedWith Hlinka's Slovak People's Party
surface form: Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party

Slovak autonomist parties
country Czechoslovakia
declinePeriod late 1930s
dominated Czechoslovak central government in the 1920s
electoralBase primarily Czech lands
governanceModel unitary parliamentary republic
historicalContext post-World War I state-building in Central Europe
ideology Czechoslovakism
included Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants
surface form: Agrarian Party

Czechoslovak National Social Party
surface form: Czechosak National Social Party

Czechoslovak National Democratic Party
Czechoslovak People’s Party
Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers’ Party
influenced constitutional debates on the status of Slovakia
influencedBy legacy of Austro-Hungarian central administration
languagePolicy promotion of Czechoslovak language concept
legacyDebatedIn Czech and Slovak historiography
mainlyRepresented Czech political elites
operatedIn First Czechoslovak Republic
opposed Slovak autonomy
federal constitutional reforms
federalization of Czechoslovakia
politicalPosition from centre-left to centre-right
position centralism
regionOfTension Slovakia
resisted recognition of Slovaks as a separate state-forming nation
sawAutonomyAs threat to state cohesion
startTime 1918
supported Prague as the main political centre
centralized control over administration
centralized control over education
centralized control over security forces
strong central government
unitary state structure
timePeriod interwar period
viewedCzechsAndSlovaksAs one Czechoslovak nation

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Slovak autonomist movement opposedBy Czechoslovak centralist parties
Autonomy campaign of the 1930s opposedTo Czechoslovak centralist parties
this entity surface form: Czechoslovak centralism