ČASOPIS SLOVENSKÉ POHĽADY (1939 – 1945) V ZAJATÍ ĽUDÁCKEJ IDEOLÓGIE

Abstract

MRÁZ, Peter. The Magazine Slovenské pohľady (1939 – 1945) in the captivity of Ľudák ideology. Historický časopis, 2022, 70, 3, pp. 515–532, Bratislava. The introductory part of our work reflects the situation that confronted Slovak writers during the Second World War with the ideological expectations of the regime of the Slovak Republic. We point to the fate of Milo Urban, who developed his career under pressure from the wish to stand out. On the way to fulfilling his wishes he succumbed to the Ľudák ideology. He actively participated in the shaping of Slovak culture in the period 1939 – 1945, and attempted to level down his work with his postwar “memories”. The main part of the paper considers the expressions of Ľudák ideology in the magazine Slovenské pohľady in the period 1939 – 1945. We perceive the term Ľudák ideology as a designation for every tendency of adherents of Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party to blacken or persecute their opponents and support processes leading to stabilization of the ruling regime. We show that the Ľudák ideology was expressed in the literature and public writing of the time in the form of value compromising by individual authors, who succumbed to the ideological demands of the time. The extracts from individual texts published in the monthly Slovenské pohľady are evidence of the activities of the chief editor Stanislav Mečiar, contributors to the magazine, and members of the public, who read these texts.

Keywords

• ľudák ideology
• culture
• milo urban
• slovak republic 1939 – 1945
• gardista
• slovenské pohľady