Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/history-of-the-hungarian-peoples-republic-part-1-horthys-hungary
SOURCES:
Doreen Warriner, Revolution in Eastern Europe
John Gunther, Inside Europe
John Gunter, Behind the curtain
Evans, That Blue Danube
White, The Long Balkan Night
Kovrig Bennett, The Hungarian People's Republic
Norman Stone, Hungary: A Short History
Zinner, The Revolution in Hungary
Paul Ignotus, Hungary
Béla Szász, Volunteers for gallows
David Pryce-Jones, The Hungarian Revolution
Hodos, Show Trials
Apor, The Invisible Shining
Dezső Nemes, History of the Revolutionary Workers Movement in Hungary: 1944-1962
Molnar, A concise history of Hungary
György Borsányi and János Kende, The History of the Working Class Movement in Hungary
Wilfred G. Burchett, Peoples' Democracies
ABOUT MY SOURCES:
Almost all my sources are established “respectable” anti-communist/pro-capitalist mainstream historians. The only exception is that I cite 2 books by Hungarian communist historians: one by Nemes and the other by Borsányi & Kende. Burchett is also a journalist with communist sympathies.
The facts I present here can be considered very reliable, because they are confirmed both by pro-communist and anti-communist sources. I chose to cite mostly anti-communist historians, since they obviously have no bias to lie on behalf of communism. This way the information should be acceptable to non-communists.
That said, capitalist historians are dishonest and biased against communism, so I typically don't recommend any of them. The only non-communist book on this topic I can recommend is “Revolution in Eastern Europe” by Doreen Warriner, it is both objective and well researched, with lots of emprical data. The other non-communist history books are extremely flawed, I had to verify everything I quoted from them from multiple sources and make sure it was true.
Nemes, Borsányi & Kende are not perfect either, they are kadarist revisionists. I agree with the facts I quoted from them, but not necessary with everything they might say.
At the end of this series I will probably make an episode where I discuss the research process and the sources in detail.
Music clips are from "Concerto for Orchestra", "Viola Concerto" and "Violin Concerto no. 2" by Béla Bartók, "Années de pèlerinage II 'Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa' S.161 Andante marziale" by Franz Liszt, "Hazatérés Concerto", "In Fury Rose the Ocean - Oratorio: VI, Hungarians will now triumph I am sure" and "Vallomás" by Ferenc Szabó, "Tábortűznél" by Lajos Bárdos and "Honvéd kantáta" by Endre Szervánszky
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/history-of-the-hungarian-peoples-republic-part-1-horthys-hungary
SOURCES:
Doreen Warriner, Revolution in Eastern Europe
John Gunther, Inside Europe
John Gunter, Behind the curtain
Evans, That Blue Danube
White, The Long Balkan Night
Kovrig Bennett, The Hungarian People's Republic
Norman Stone, Hungary: A Short History
Zinner, The Revolution in Hungary
Paul Ignotus, Hungary
Béla Szász, Volunteers for gallows
David Pryce-Jones, The Hungarian Revolution
Hodos, Show Trials
Apor, The Invisible Shining
Dezső Nemes, History of the Revolutionary Workers Movement in Hungary: 1944-1962
Molnar, A concise history of Hungary
György Borsányi and János Kende, The History of the Working Class Movement in Hungary
Wilfred G. Burchett, Peoples' Democracies
ABOUT MY SOURCES:
Almost all my sources are established “respectable” anti-communist/pro-capitalist mainstream historians. The only exception is that I cite 2 books by Hungarian communist historians: one by Nemes and the other by Borsányi & Kende. Burchett is also a journalist with communist sympathies.
The facts I present here can be considered very reliable, because they are confirmed both by pro-communist and anti-communist sources. I chose to cite mostly anti-communist historians, since they obviously have no bias to lie on behalf of communism. This way the information should be acceptable to non-communists.
That said, capitalist historians are dishonest and biased against communism, so I typically don't recommend any of them. The only non-communist book on this topic I can recommend is “Revolution in Eastern Europe” by Doreen Warriner, it is both objective and well researched, with lots of emprical data. The other non-communist history books are extremely flawed, I had to verify everything I quoted from them from multiple sources and make sure it was true.
Nemes, Borsányi & Kende are not perfect either, they are kadarist revisionists. I agree with the facts I quoted from them, but not necessary with everything they might say.
At the end of this series I will probably make an episode where I discuss the research process and the sources in detail.
Music clips are from "Concerto for Orchestra", "Viola Concerto" and "Violin Concerto no. 2" by Béla Bartók, "Années de pèlerinage II 'Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa' S.161 Andante marziale" by Franz Liszt, "Hazatérés Concerto", "In Fury Rose the Ocean - Oratorio: VI, Hungarians will now triumph I am sure" and "Vallomás" by Ferenc Szabó, "Tábortűznél" by Lajos Bárdos and "Honvéd kantáta" by Endre Szervánszky
