1st Edition
Underground Streams National-Conservatives after World War II in Communist Hungary and Eastern Europe
Edited By János M. Rainer
Copyright 2023
366 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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.... Read more
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 K?rösi 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 Szeg?, Index
Biography
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.
