CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Tolmar, Balint |
|---|---|
| Title | Peasants into Communists: Politics, Identity and Social Tensions during the Land Distribution of 1945 in Hungary |
| Summary | This study attempts to elucidate how political parties organized their basis and local organizations in the countryside in 1945; I depict the discursive panels the party propagandas offered, the methods of agitation and the incentives provided to citizens as well the coercive practices the authorities may implemented to exclude others from political participation. However, the focus will be on the local understanding of “popular democracy:” how villagers interpreted the new normative systems, and how individuals or groups tried to manipulate the rules and higher officials by bringing into play consequential strategies on their own in policy-making. Alluding to the connections between the emergence of the new political regime, the land distribution process, and the restratification of village communities, this paper shall present a crucial phase of the transformation of the Hungarian rural society in a new perspective. The small-scale analysis will provide the possibility of restoring individual agency to the historical account about this period on the one hand, and revealing the variety of “peasant experiences” – which formed the personal and collective strategies and forms of accommodation to the new system – on the other. |
| Supervisor | 4 gm |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/tolmar_balint.pdf |
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