Terror 1918-1919 - Forradalmárok ellenforradalmárok megszállók

Following the armistice agreements that ended the First World War, the guns fell silent everywhere on the fronts, but the civilian population of the hinterland only really experienced the violence in the following weeks and months. In just one year, the Hungarians witnessed the birth and fall of new regimes, revolution, counter-revolution, dictatorship and occupation, and the events that followed each other with stormy speed were - due to their nature - everywhere accompanied by violent acts. We know relatively much about the processes taking place in Budapest, but so far there has been little analysis of the experiences of areas far from the capital. A similarly one-dimensional image of the driving forces and main actors of the Red and White terror, greatly distorted by various memory policies, lives on. How did the balance of power change in the multi-ethnic areas of Transylvania? How did Kassa experience the change of empire? What atrocities happened to the population of Délvidék during 1918-1919? What kind of peasant movements and uprisings followed the proclamation of the Aster Revolution in the Hungarian countryside? What do we know about the two emblematic figures of the Council Republic, Otto Korvin and Tibor Szamuely? In what broader or narrower context can the violent acts of white terror be interpreted? The study volume edited by the researchers of the Working Group on the History of Violence seeks answers to these questions in the hope that the exploration of the smallest details will shed new light on the entire era.