Political Parties of Hungarian Minority in Interwar Czechoslovakia (1918-1938) - Brief Summary and Outline of the Issue
Abstract
During the whole period of existence of Czechoslovakia, the central political parties of the Hungarian minority maintained opposition policy. In spite of the flirt with activism particularly in the second half of the Twentieths, the political representation of the Hungarian minority and the government did not find common ground during the whole two decades of interwar Czechoslovakia.
The Hungarians did not join the government even in the hot times of the first years of the second half of the Thirtieths. The Hungarian minority defended consistently the cultural-social and economic interests of the Hungarian minority on the political scene of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
But their political fight for defence of the interests of the Hungarian minority always took place in the legal limits and they never assumed any extra-political aggressive, provocational and destructive practices, as the Sudeten Germans lead by Konrád Hen-lein's radicalized SdP did. They saw adequate future of the (not only) Hungarian minority in consistent autonomous rearrangement of Cze-choslovakia, not in revision of borders.
They tended to support revisi-onism only at the very end of the First Republic.