In her book, the historian Josette Baer focusses on the analysis of Vavro Šrobár's political ideas and activities in Slovak domestic affairs, dominated by the prevailing zeitgeist that also reflects the intellectual currents of the time. In the first half of the 20th century, these ideas were changing and, in the years between the wars, in a way that was not always conducive to democracy and civil rights. Baer therefore also investigates the social environment and the political conditions V. Šrobár and those intellectually close to him had to face. Thanks to Baer's fundamental knowledge of the historical material, her book is not only an outstanding contribution to the research on Slovak political thought of the first half of the 20th century, but also on wider political developments which in those years reached beyond the borders of Slovakia, since they were dependent on the development of the entire region of Central and Eastern Europe.

Josette Baer is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at UCM Trnava, Slovakia, and adjunct professor of political theory with a focus on Central and Eastern European political thought at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland. She has published several books and peer-reviewed studies about Czechoslovak, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Russian, and Macedonian political thought and politics.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. The idea of Czecho-Slovak solidarity and the Czechoslovak state
(1898–1918)
II. The making of Czechoslovakia in Slovakia (1918–1938)
III. The Slovak State and the post-war years (1939–1950)
Conclusion
Vavro Šrobár—data
Appendix
Bibliography
Index