CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Gioielli, Emily Rebecca |
|---|---|
| Title | 'WHITE MISRULE': TERROR AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE DURING HUNGARY'S LONG WORLD WAR I, 1919-1924 |
| Summary | This dissertation is a social and international history of counter-revolutionary repression and White Terror in early postwar Hungary. It uses an intersectional approach that interrogates the relationship between different forms of oppression and privilege, in order to understand how class, gender, ethnicity, religion, and citizenship status shaped how different individuals and groups in Hungary perpetrated, experienced and interpreted White Terror. Further, this work places violence in a broader context, to show how different dimensions of violence continued and departed from longer term patterns of repression that developed over the course of World War I in Hungary, and in belligerent states more broadly. The issue of violence in Hungary was not just a matter of domestic politics. It was also an important dimension of the international community’s engagement in Hungary, especially between 1919-1921. Narratives produced by Entente officials, the international labor movement and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee fiercely debated the nature and scope of violence and interrogated the relationship of the counter-revolutionary state with White Terror. This dissertation shows how class, gender, ethnicity, religion and citizenship status, as well as unequal power relations between states, played an important role in shaping how these groups articulated the violence and instrumentalized it, to promote their political and philanthropic agendas in newly independent Hungary, and postwar Europe more broadly. |
| Supervisor | Zimmermann, Susan |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/gioielli_emily.pdf |
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