Underground Streams

National-Conservatives After World War II in Communist Hungary and Eastern Europe

Buch | Hardcover

366 Seiten

2023
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-386-196-7 (ISBN)

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The authors of this edited volume address the hidden attraction that existed between the extremes of left and right, and of internationalism and nationalism under the decades of communist dictatorship in Eastern Europe. One might suppose that under the suppressive regimes based on leftist ideology and internationalism their right-wing opponents would have been defeated and ultimately removed. These essays, on the other hand, recount the itinerary of survival and revival of "right-wing" thought and activities under communist dictatorship. Resistance and accommodation are explored in the various phases from the Stalinist era to the demise of the Soviet Bloc, with the continuity provided by tacit or concealed right-wing discourses receiving particular consideration. The Eastern European right, both in its conservative and fascist version, centered on nationalism, a legitimizing factor that increased with the downfall of the regimes, and the authors thus accord nationalism special attention.

Two documentary sources for these essays that stand out are files of the security services and the exceptionally rich Oral History Archive compiled by the 1956 Institute in Budapest, Hungary.

János M. Rainer is Historian, Director of the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (1999-2011), professor at Eszterházy Károly College, Eger.

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Underground Streams: National-Conservatives after World War II in Communist Hungary and Eastern Europe

János M. Rainer

PART I. RIGHT-WING TRADITION AFTER 1945 IN EASTERN EUROPE

Chapter 1. The Romanian Ideology: Merging Political Extremes in a National Stalinist Discourse

Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob

Chapter 2. Absent Traditions: Right-Wing Strands in Slovakian Politics

Attila Simon

Chapter 3. A Round-Trip through the Czech Lands: The Origins of a Liberal Right Revolution

András Schweitzer

Chapter 4. Conservative Right-Wing Political Thinking in Hungary after 1945

János M. Rainer

PART II. RIGHT-WING ENEMIES THROUGH THE LENS OF STATE SECURITY

Chapter 5. Social Resistance under the Kádár Regime and the “Right-Wing” Enemies of State Security

Krisztián Ungváry

Chapter 6. Christian Democrats Under Fire from the Political Police, 1945–1989

Gábor Tabajdi

Chapter 7. “Petty” Arrow Cross Supporters in the Interior Ministry files

András Lénárt and Rudolf Paksa

PART III. PERSONAL LIFE PATHS AND STRATEGIES

Chapter 8. “I Was Brought up the Old Way, I’m a Conservative”: A Middle-Class Christian Looks Back on His Life

Zsuzsanna Kőrösi

Chapter 9. A Nationalist of Successive Periods: Miklós Mester (1906–1989)

Katalin Somlai

Chapter 10. From Right to Left—Or Not? Béla Csikós-Nagy, a Paradigmatical Opportunist of Transition

Iván Miklós Szegő

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2021
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	963-386-196-9 / 9633861969
ISBN-13	978-963-386-196-7 / 9789633861967
Zustand	Neuware