IDEE I CZYNY: WĘGIERSKA REPUBLIKA RAD 1919 ROKU JAKO PRZYKŁAD TOTALITARNEGO REŻIMU REWOLUCYJNEGO
IDEAS AND ACTIONS: HUNGARIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC IN 1919 AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY TOTALITARIAN REGIME

Summary/Abstract: In the article, Grzegorz Baziur described the history and the fate of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and its aggression against neighboring Slovakia, where was proclaimed Slovak Soviet Republic. It was an attempt to “export of revolution” from Hungary to Czechoslovakia. The author describes the circumstances of raising power in Budapest by the Hungarian communists and the totalitarian system that they created during the dictatorship from March to August 1919. The author discusses the social reaction to the repression and crimes of the regime of Béla Kun: from the initial public passivity to resistance in the country, and the role of Hungarian political exile in Vienna in the fight against the communists. Further author discusses the Entente’s military intervention and liquidation of the WRR and the withdrawal of the Red Army of Hungary from Slovakia at the beginning of August 1919. In the final part of the text author has devoted the situation in Hungary after the suppression of the revolution by discussing: white terror and extend the rule of Admiral Miklos Horty as regent, which was a continuation of the monarchy in Hungary.

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