Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Csikós, Gábor
• Galambos, István
• Káli, Csaba
• Nagy, Netta
• Kovács, József Ö.
• Rigó, Róbert
• Horváth, Gergely Krisztián
• Kovács, József Ö

Titel

Class Warfare in the Hungarian Village (1948-1956): An Experiential History of the First Wave of Forced Collectivization

Ist Teil von

• The Sovietization of Rural Hungary, 1945-1980, 2023, Vol.1, p.55-83

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The "restoration" of Hungarian sovereignty thus paradoxically allowed the country's Communist Party-now no longer hampered by the presence of western Allies' envoys-to make more open use of its power. The social group capable of maintaining a degree of autonomy was the traditional peasantry. A peasant family could generally insure its survival with 10 hold of land; the goods they produced were used primarily for self-provisioning and only secondarily for the purposes of market exchange. The customs and habits of the middle and more well-to-do peasant classes served as models for the entirety of village society. While its ideologues proclaimed that the communist system would be based on a "worker-peasant" alliance, the peasant farmers they considered "capitalists" were actually targeted for liquidation. According to Stalin, cooperation with the various peasant classes was permissible only if they supported the dictatorship of the proletariat.