Abstract
Roman Catholic priest, social activist, and politician, Andrej Hlinka was a major force in advancing Slovak national self‐determination. As a Slovak politician in the first Czechoslovak Republic, Hlinka determinedly opposed Prague centralism and the ideology of Czechoslovakism employed to legitimize Czechoslovakia as a nation‐state. He demanded that Slovakia be granted the autonomy promised in the Pittsburgh Pact, signed by the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas G. Masaryk, during World War I.
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