Az "alávetettség racionalizálása". Levélírók kommunikációs gyakorlata 1956 után
The "Rationalization of Subjection": Communications of Letter Writers after 1956

Summary/Abstract: The author addresses the issues of the motivation and the measure of adjustment of those writing letters to state authorities, the Communist Party and the party press after the suppression of the Revolution of 1956. According to these letters, both those writing letters to state authorities, the Communist Party and the party press after the suppression of the Revolution of 1956. According to these letters, both those writing them and receiving them followed a dual communications approach. It is also of interest that as the regime was consolidated the number of anonymous letters increased. The communications approach of the letter writers may be compared to complaints of “prisoner status”. Their statements were in fact products of a society without the rule of law which restricted expressions of views to the three-fold ruling “prohibited, tolerated and supported”. The author analyzed primarily the letters of the rural population written in the course of forced collectivization (1959-1961).

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