Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Playlist with all the episodes:
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This episode discusses the cultural revolution during the first Five Year Plan (1949-53).
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Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/history-of-the-hungarian-peoples-republic-part-10-revolution-in-culture
Also see my page on Hungarian revolutionary and progressive art, which is still being updated:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/art-in-socialist-hungary
SOURCES:
Jörg K. Hoensch, A history of modern Hungary
Bennett Kovrig, Communism in Hungary: from Kun to Kādār
Rakosi, Report to the Second Congress of the Hungarian Working People's Party
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi51.htm
youtube.com/watch?v=W_NASsT6iC8
Eric Roman, Hungary and the victor powers, 1945-1950
Randolph L. Braham, Education in the Hungarian People's Republic
Ervin Pamlényi, A History of Hungary*
Marianna Norris, Young Hungary; children of Hungary at work and at play
Rakosi, Speech Delivered at the Election Rally of the Hungarian People’s Independence Front in Budapest on May 10, 1953
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi530510.htm
youtube.com/watch?v=x9tKnYyOU54
Henrik Vass, Studies on the History of the Hungarian Working-Class Movement (1867-1966)*
Gyula Kállai, The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the Light of Marxism-Leninism
Norman Stone, Hungary: A Short History
David Pryce-Jones, The Hungarian Revolution
Paul Lendvai, The Hungarians
Béla Menczer, A commentary on Hungarian literature
Bennett Kovrig, The Hungarian People's Republic
Zinner, The Revolution in Hungary
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
Thomas Aczel & Tibor Meray, The Revolt Of The Mind
Shuster, In Silence I speak
Dezső Nemes, History of the Revolutionary Workers Movement in Hungary: 1944-1962*
Ernst Helmreich, Hungary
“Culture and education”, on the 1956 institute website
Ágnes Eitlereitler, "The “Re-Tuning” of János Arany's Life and Work in the Popular Education of the 1950s"
Zoltan Halasz, Unkari: kuvitettu tietoteos ["Hungary: an illustrated information book"]
János Berecz, 1956 counter-revolution in Hungary: words and weapons*
Paul Ignotus, Hungary
Alan Blackwood, The Hungarian Uprising
Jozsef Revai, Lukacs and Socialist Realism
archive.org/details/dli.ernet.237350/page/n1/mode/2up
youtube.com/watch?v=wdjidNdG5IA
Gábor Rieder, A History of Hungarian Socialist Realist Painting 1949-1956 Ideology and Existence
Wilfred G. Burchett, Peoples' Democracies
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/burch0.htm
Michael Gold, The Worker, N. Y., July 9, 1950
*Pamlényi, Vass, Nemes and Berecz are kadarist historians. Their books contain a lot of good information but also wrongfully slander Rakosi and defend revisionism. You can find their books here under the “Hungary” section:
mltheory.wordpress.com/the-real-history-of-the-soviet-union
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Playlist with all the episodes:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS6GirUcyM-53gm0T6f0Kc0
This episode discusses the cultural revolution during the first Five Year Plan (1949-53).
------------------
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/history-of-the-hungarian-peoples-republic-part-10-revolution-in-culture
Also see my page on Hungarian revolutionary and progressive art, which is still being updated:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/art-in-socialist-hungary
SOURCES:
Jörg K. Hoensch, A history of modern Hungary
Bennett Kovrig, Communism in Hungary: from Kun to Kādār
Rakosi, Report to the Second Congress of the Hungarian Working People's Party
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi51.htm
youtube.com/watch?v=W_NASsT6iC8
Eric Roman, Hungary and the victor powers, 1945-1950
Randolph L. Braham, Education in the Hungarian People's Republic
Ervin Pamlényi, A History of Hungary*
Marianna Norris, Young Hungary; children of Hungary at work and at play
Rakosi, Speech Delivered at the Election Rally of the Hungarian People’s Independence Front in Budapest on May 10, 1953
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi530510.htm
youtube.com/watch?v=x9tKnYyOU54
Henrik Vass, Studies on the History of the Hungarian Working-Class Movement (1867-1966)*
Gyula Kállai, The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the Light of Marxism-Leninism
Norman Stone, Hungary: A Short History
David Pryce-Jones, The Hungarian Revolution
Paul Lendvai, The Hungarians
Béla Menczer, A commentary on Hungarian literature
Bennett Kovrig, The Hungarian People's Republic
Zinner, The Revolution in Hungary
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
Thomas Aczel & Tibor Meray, The Revolt Of The Mind
Shuster, In Silence I speak
Dezső Nemes, History of the Revolutionary Workers Movement in Hungary: 1944-1962*
Ernst Helmreich, Hungary
“Culture and education”, on the 1956 institute website
Ágnes Eitlereitler, "The “Re-Tuning” of János Arany's Life and Work in the Popular Education of the 1950s"
Zoltan Halasz, Unkari: kuvitettu tietoteos ["Hungary: an illustrated information book"]
János Berecz, 1956 counter-revolution in Hungary: words and weapons*
Paul Ignotus, Hungary
Alan Blackwood, The Hungarian Uprising
Jozsef Revai, Lukacs and Socialist Realism
archive.org/details/dli.ernet.237350/page/n1/mode/2up
youtube.com/watch?v=wdjidNdG5IA
Gábor Rieder, A History of Hungarian Socialist Realist Painting 1949-1956 Ideology and Existence
Wilfred G. Burchett, Peoples' Democracies
revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/burch0.htm
Michael Gold, The Worker, N. Y., July 9, 1950
*Pamlényi, Vass, Nemes and Berecz are kadarist historians. Their books contain a lot of good information but also wrongfully slander Rakosi and defend revisionism. You can find their books here under the “Hungary” section:
mltheory.wordpress.com/the-real-history-of-the-soviet-union
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My discord
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