Andrej!Hlinka's letters of the years 1918-1921

The collection of letters was written by Andrej Hlinka, the Catholic priest, politician and the chair of the Slovak National Party for many years. The document Hlinka's active political life in the first years of the Czechoslovak Republic, as well as his numerous other activities in education and charity, banking, insurance and publications. Immediate after the Czechoslovak Republic had been established, A. Hlinka entered high politics - he signet the Martin declaration, lie became a member of revolutionary National Assembly and the chair of the National Party which soon became the strongest political group in Slovakia. He also devoted his attention to press, education, various unions, trade unions and religious guestions too. Soon after he returned from a the peace Conference in Paris, A. Hlinka was imprisoned. The letters from the prison, which he wrote to various politicians, are very significant because they make A. Hlinka's picture as a man more complex.