Nationalism

Nationalism Nationalism In 1989, a democratic government in Czechoslovakia was established, and in 1990, the country was renamed the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. In July of that year, Slovakia declared sovereignty, and an agreement was quickly reached to dissolve the Czech and Slovak union. On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In Yugoslavia, the result of 1989 was not the creation of progressive, Western-oriented reform regimes (except in Slovenia) but instead the revival of regimes (often led by former Communists) that were old-fashioned in the sense that they pursued traditional nationalist agendas, often at the cost of suppressing democratic practices and human rights. Why then did the first case end up in an amicable (‘velvet’) divorce while the other resulted in ethnic warfare where millions were killed by ‘ethnic cleansing-what was the determining factor that made the two Soviet satellites find themselves at such different places' In my essay, I would like to argue that nationalism was the determining factor between the two. In the case of Czechoslovakia, nationalism was never a huge issue, as its minorities were cleansed at an earlier stage leaving both the Czechs and Slovaks in majority in their own territory. It was nationalism, yugoslavia, czechoslovakia, two, slovakia, serbs, croatia, case, serbia, ethnic, czechs, czech, between, region, democratic, communist, split, slovaks, serbian, republic, party, milosevic, kosovo, after, world, serb, power, percent, new, nationalistic, made, lived, however, goal, germans, czechoslovakians