Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Playlist with all the episodes:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS6GirUcyM-53gm0T6f0Kc0

THIS EPISODE DISCUSSES:
-damage to Hungary caused by the war
-the liberation of Hungary (1944-45)
-the Debrecen provisional government (1944)
-the 1945 elections and democratic anti-fascist coalition government
-land-reform (1945)
-the inflation crisis and new currency (1945-46)

Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2021/10/31/history-of-the-hungarian-peoples-republic-part-2-democratic-coalition-government

SOURCES:

David Pryce-Jones, The Hungarian Revolution

Norman Stone, Hungary: A Short History

Wilfred G. Burchett, People's democracies

Dezső Nemes, History of the Revolutionary Workers Movement in Hungary: 1944-1962

SKP vuosikirja VI

Paul E. Zinner, The Revolution in Hungary

Bennett Kovrig, The Hungarian People's Republic

Balazs Apor, The invisible shining, p. 58)

Pal Ignotus, Hungary

John Gunther, Behind the curtain

R. R. Betts, ed., Central and South East Europe

Ilonya Polanyi, World Affairs, April, 1949

Doreen Warriner, Revolution in Eastern Europe

Eino Nevalainen, marxilaisen taloustieteen oppikirja osa 2

Borsányi & Kende, The History of the Working Class Movement in Hungary

Kertesz, S. D., The Methods of Communist Conquest: Hungary 1944-1947

Music from Ferenc Szabo, Bela Bartok, Franz Liszt, Ferenc Erkel