Heroes or thieves? Nepotism, clientage and paramilitary violence in Hungary, 1919-1921

Title:

Heroes or thieves? Nepotism, clientage and paramilitary violence in Hungary, 1919-1921

Creator:

Bodó, Béla

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:3b1cc86b-5526-47ed-a76c-8469e1f62f3c
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Subject:

political violence, anti-Semitism, Hungary, Pál Prónay, Iván Héjjas, clients, mafia, paramilitary groups, civil war, and retreat of the state

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

This article examines the social context of paramilitary violence and scrutinizes the motives of the perpetrators in Hungary between 1919 and 1921 in a social context. The atrocities committed against middle-class Jews, the article argues, was primarily motivated by greed rather than ethnic and religious hatred; they were favored by the “retreat of the state”, its loss of monopoly on the means of violence and a collusion between the political and social elites and middle-class organizations, on the one hand, and the paramilitary groups, on the other. The article attributes the defeat of the militia movement in Hungary to its leaders’ lack of political talent and the slow restoration of law and order under the conservative government of István Bethlen in the early 1920s. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

66-114

Source:

Střed: časopis pro mezioborová studia střední Evropy 19. a 20. století | 2015 Volume:7 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

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