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- Title
Die „Plünderungen" in Oberungarn im Herbst 1918 - bolschewistische Anarchie oder nationale Revolution?
- Authors
Szabó, Miloslav
- Abstract
This article examines the significance of the so-called "lootings" (rabovačky) in Upper Hungary in the autumn of 1918, when receding soldiers and broad sections of the population attacked the representatives of state power and Jewish innkeepers stereotyped as "usurers." In addition to their anti-Jewish character, their symbolic content, in which revolt against the old order was accompanied by carnivalesque violent mockery of it, is elaborated upon. The greatest attention, however, is paid to the political instrumentalization of the "lootings" on the part of the representatives of the new Czechoslovak state. This instrumentalization ranged from appropriation (albeit hesitant, given their violent nature) to condemnation: the former for the "Czechoslovak revolution" in the post-war years, the latter as a prelude to Bolshevization at the height of the economic crisis in the early 1930s.
- Subjects
ANARCHISM; PILLAGE; STATE power; HOTELKEEPERS; MILITARY personnel
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2024, Vol 73, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0948-8294
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25627/202473111473