In this stunning biography, Josette Baer re-traces the eventful life of the Slovak politician Vavro Srobar, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. Spanning from his student days and his fight for Slovak civil rights in Upper Hungary via his ministerial positions during the First Czechoslovak Republic to his active resistance against German fascism, Baers research paints a most comprehensive picture. Based on rich archive material available to the English-reading public for the first time, Baer shows how Srobars political thought and activities shaped...