Az oroszországi forradalmak értékelése a magyar egyházi közvéleményben
The Assessment of the Russian Revolutions in the Public Opinion of the Hungarian Churches

Summary/Abstract: The study explores the way in which Catholic and Protestant ecclesiastical public opinion assessed the Russian Revolutions. The Catholics regarded these events as a source of immediate danger right from the start, for they feared that in the wake of the Russian example social democracy and anti-clericalism might expand in Hungary as well, and social order be endangered. More optimistic views, calculating with the restoration of religious freedom in Russia and the possibility of the union with the orthodox faith, were a minority from the beginning. The Protestants, on the other hand, at first adopted a more optimistic stance, hoping for the worldwide extension of democracy and social justice, and trusting in their own abilities to moderate the revolutionary waves once these reached Hungary. In their ranks, it was only after the edict on the separation of state and church, issued early in 1918, that condemnation of the revolution and the parallel call for order became general.

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