Fekete éjszakában az éjszaka feketézői. Csempészek mindennapjai a nyugati határsávban, 1918–1922
Black Marketers in the Black Night: Everyday Life of Smugglers in the Western Border Region, 1918–1922

Summary/Abstract: The paper will describe the activities of the inhabitants of the Austro–Hungarian border. It will discuss the way in which the interregional economy that had been developed over decades was subjected to the process of political separation of Austria and Hungary. In what way the two states having lost the war and previously co-operated within the Austro–Hungarian Monarchy could regulate the cross-border social and business life that used to be so natural to the inhabitants. The mechanism of the smuggling operations designed and expanded since 1916 along with the associated social strategies will be highlighted. Illustrating the process by which smuggling has transformed from forced adaptation to survival into a means of livelihood and social uplift, a consciously, long-term investment.

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