Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Csikós, Gábor
• Horváth, Gergely Krisztián
• Kovács, József Ö.
• Kovács, József Ö

Titel

Our Conclusions

Ist Teil von

• The Sovietization of Rural Hungary, 1945-1980, 2023, Vol.1, p.156-164

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to the political mythology of Hungary's "land reform," the promise of the revolution of 1848 was fulfilled with the redistribution of land in 1945, insofar as it put a stop to the landlords' exploitation of the peasantry and finally gave "the land to him who cultivates it." World War II created the conditions in which the land-reform order was issued, and thus the redistribution of Hungary's land was conducted on the basis of military and political questions which the communist party and the Red Army amplified into a radical movement. In rural Hungary, alongside the aristocracy and the church, the traditional peasantry constituted a third potential base of economic and political opposition to the communist project. Soviet-style state policies played an important role in the fundamental transformation of Hungary's traditional society and profoundly influenced rural and village value systems.