Abstract

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birthday of the Slovak historian Jozef Jablonický the author shows the reception of his work in 1974 - 1989 especially among the Slovak philosophical dissidents. All her evidence and evaluations proof clearly Jablonický's dedication to pure facts in his researches of civic resistance during Slovak National Uprising in 1944 regardless to various legends and authoritarian views. She also shows Jablonický's personal integrity in defending the virtue of the practice of historians in the period of normalisation