| List of Abbreviations | xi |
| Bibliographical Note | xiii |
| Introduction | 1 |
| 1. | The Problem | 1 |
| 2. | The Origins of the Question in Hungary | 6 |
| 3. | The First Crisis of the Nineteenth Century | 13 |
| 4. | Hungarian National Policy, 1867-1918 | 20 |
| 5. | The Economic Development of Hungary up to 1918 | 26 |
| 6. | The National Balance-Sheet | 32 |
| 7. | The Crown and the Forces outside Hungary | 35 |
| 8. | The Break-down and the Treaty | 37 |
| The Burgenland | 41 |
| 1. | Geography, Population, and History | 43 |
| 2. | The Movement for Attachment to Austria | 48 |
| 3. | Proceedings at the Peace Conference | 51 |
| 4. | The Oedenburg (Sopron) Plebiscite | 54 |
| 5. | Economic and Administrative Conditions since 1920 | 60 |
| 6. | Political Feeling among the Germans | 65 |
| 7. | The National Minorities | 67 |
| 8. | The Position of Oedenburg | 69 |
| 9. | International Considerations | 70 |
| Czechoslovakia | 73 |
| Slovakia | |
| 1. | Geography and Population | 73 |
| 2. | The Economic Situation up to 1918 | 79 |
| 3. | The Slovak Question up to 1914 | 83 |
| 4. | The Creation of Czechoslovakia | 94 |
| 5. | The Slovak Question since the War | 110 |
| 6. | The Slovak Question since the War: (2) | 119 |
| 7. | The Slovak Question since the War: (3) | 132 |
| 8. | Political Feeling among the Slovaks | 135 |
| 9. | Czechoslovak Minority Policy | 148 |
| 10. | The Minorities: Political Rights | 151 |
| 11. | The Minorities: Linguistic and Administrative Conditions | 154 |
| 12. | The Minorities: Educational and Cultural Questions | 165 |
| 13. | The Minorities: Economic Position | 171 |
| 14. | The Future of the Minority Problem | 176 |
| 15. | Political Feeling among the Minorities | 180 |
| 16. | The Economic Problem | 190 |
| 17. | Possibilities of Local Revision | 198 |
| Ruthenia | |
| 1. | Geography, Population, History: the Ruthene Question | 200 |
| 2. | Union with Czechoslovakia | 212 |
| 3. | Political Developments, 1919-27 | 221 |
| 4. | The Ruthene Question: Political and Administrative | 224 |
| 5. | The Ruthene Question: Cultural, Linguistic, and National | 228 |
| 6. | The Economic Position | 234 |
| 7. | Political Feeling among the Ruthenes | 238 |
| 8. | The Minority Question | 244 |
| 9. | Considerations for and against Revision | 246 |
| Transylvania | 251 |
| 1. | Geography and Population | 251 |
| 2. | History of Transylvania up to 1867 | 254 |
| 3. | The National Movements, 1867-1914 | 262 |
| 4. | The Economic Position of Transylvania up to 1914 | 269 |
| 5. | Crisana, Maramures, and the Banat in the Past | 271 |
| 6. | The Union with Roumania and the Determination of the Frontiers | 275 |
| 7. | The Roumanian Question since 1918 | 279 |
| 8. | Roumanian Minority Policy | 284 |
| 9. | The Minorities: Political and Administrative Conditions | 291 |
| 10. | The Minorities: General Cultural and Ecclesiastical Questions | 299 |
| 11. | The Minorities: Educational Questions | 306 |
| 12. | The Minorities: The Economic and Social Struggle | 315 |
| 13. | The Economic Problem | 331 |
| 14. | Political Feeling among the Nationalities | 334 |
| 15. | The Possibilities of Revision | 348 |
| Yugoslavia | 356 |
| 1. | Introduction | 356 |
| Croatia | |
| 2. | Geography and Population: the Croat Movement up to 1914 | 356 |
| 3. | The Union with Yugoslavia | 362 |
| 4. | The Croat Problem: 1919-29 | 364 |
| 5. | The Croat Problem: 1929-36 | 370 |
| 6. | The Precani Serbs | 375 |
| 7. | The Medjumurje and the Prekomurje | 377 |
| The Voivodina | |
| 1. | Geography and Population | 380 |
| 2. | History to 1914 | 382 |
| 3. | Union with Yugoslavia and Determination of the Frontiers | 390 |
| 4. | Conditions since 1919 | 395 |
| 5. | The Slav Peoples since 1919 | 403 |
| 6. | Yugoslav Minority Policy | 408 |
| 7. | The Minorities: Political and Administrative Conditions | 410 |
| 8. | The Minorities: Educational and Cultural Questions | 415 |
| 9. | The Minorities: Economic and Social Questions | 425 |
| 10. | The Economic Problem | 429 |
| 11. | Political Feeling among the Minorities | 431 |
| 12. | The Possibilities of Revision | 435 |
| Fiume | 438 |
| Hungary | 445 |
| 1. | Introduction | 445 |
| 2. | Nationality Policy | 445 |
| 3. | The Economic Problem | 461 |
| Conclusions | 480 |
| 1. | The Position in 1918 | 480 |
| 2. | The Position in 1937 | 487 |
| Index | 497 |
| Ethnographical Map of Hungary | |