Apor Péter - Forradalom a back udvarban

In the year and a half following the Second World War, a mass wave of violence swept through the Hungarian countryside. The demonstrations that broke out in Kunmadaras, Miskolc, Ózd, Békéscsaba or Ségvár once again made the Jewish communities that survived the Holocaust victims of violence and were closely related to the events of the post-war political and social struggle.

The book presents for the first time the history of popular judgments, demonstrations and pogroms based on largely unknown documents of the political police and county archives. Through the involvement of new sources, the author asks new questions: he presents the largely unexplored social background of the perpetrators, while researching previously unexamined meanings of popular culture and imagination. Why were the millers blamed for the lack of bread and grain? How was the body image connected to the concept of work, and how could the distinction between bodies become the policy of the new state? What united the mobs involved in violent acts? What was the impact of successive political assemblies, demonstrations and demonstrations on the realization of self-sustaining, radical popular politics? What did the post-war anti-Semitic imagination inherit from the inciting propaganda of the war years?
Péter Apor's book not only tries to look at 1945 and the post-war world from a different point of view, but due to its specific structure, it also attempts a different from the traditional way of telling history.

PÉTER APOR is a senior associate at the Institute of History of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network. He obtained his doctorate in 2002 at the European University Institute in Florence. His main research area is the comparative cultural history of the second half of the 20th century in Central and Eastern Europe, and the role of the region in international processes. Father of three children.