Neb Yearbook 2016–2017
NEB YEARBOOK 2016–2017 NEB YEARBOOK 2016–2017 Committee of National Remembrance Budapest 2018 Edited by Réka Kiss and Zsolt Horváth Translation, development, and copy editing by Éva Misits © Office of the Committee of National Remembrance, 2018 © Barbara Bank, Kristóf Erdős, István Galambos, Martin Gulyás, Gergely Krisztián Horváth, Csaba Káli, Réka Kiss, Anita M. Madarász, Áron Máthé, Gabriella Müller, István Ötvös, István Simon, Viktor Attila Soós, Attila Szakolczai, Gábor Szilágyi, 2018 Published by the Office of the Committee of National Remembrance H-1088 Budapest, Vas utca 10. Responsible for the publication is the General Director of the Office of the Committee of National Remembrance Proofread by Gábor Szilágyi Layout by Júlia Varga Printed by SÉD Ltd. ISSN 2498-650X CONTENTS Introduction . 7 GERGELY KRISZTIÁN HORVÁTH Communist Agricultural Policy and Two Waves of Collectivization in Hungary . 11 ISTVÁN ÖTVÖS Political Trials and Their Utilization by the Hungarian Communist Dictatorship . 45 RÉKA KISS A Protestant Youth Association in the Early Cold War: The Persecution of the Hungarian YMCA by Communist State Security . .. 63 BARBARA BANK The Hungarian “Gulag”, 1945–1953 . 87 CSABA KÁLI Hungary’s Communist Party Elite in the “Long” fifties (1948–1962) . 121 ANITA M. MADARÁSZ British–Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy, 1953–1956 . 149 ISTVÁN GALAMBOS Self-Government During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956: the Establishment, Operation, and Scope of Competencies of the Várpalota Revolutionary Council . 167 5 MARTIN GULYÁS Characteristics of the Operation of the Revolutionary Workers’ Councils of 1956: Typical and Atypical Examples . 195 ATTILA SZAKOLCZAI The Internal Affairs of the Reprisals Following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 . 225 KRISTÓF ERDŐS The “Clerical Reaction” in Court: the Only Convicted Clerical Victim of the Kádár Reprisals .
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