Andrej Hlinka's letters sent to Bishop Karol Kmetko during the years 1919-1928

This is the collection of 27 letters written by the Slovak priest, politician and patriot A. Hlinka. The letters present the period and whole-society problems which he witnessed. They present the opinions of one of the most outstanding personalities of modern Slovak history. Not all the letters which A. Hlinka sent to Bishop K. Kmetko of Nitra have been preserved. The surviving letters cover the period from 1919 up to 1928. That was a very important period. Those were the first years of the first Czechoslovak Republic. They reflect the fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the period of the origin and formation of a new state, the Czechoslovak Republic. They also reflect Hlinka's unwilling residence in Mirov, they describe the situation in the Slovak National Party, the problems connected with the appointment of the first three Slovak bishops into their posts, the problems of Catholic policy in Slovakia, party plurality, disputes among the elite, etc.