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Scandal in a small town : understanding modern Hungary through the stories of three families / Marida Hollos.
Van Pelt Library HN420.5.A8 H65 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollos, Marida, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural families.
- Rural conditions.
- Hungary--Rural conditions--Case studies.
- Hungary.
- Rural families--Hungary--Case studies.
- Hungary--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 214 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2001]
- Summary:
- Traces the ups and downs of three families linked by a petty scandal that prompted their town's popular mayor to take his own life as the communist regime was toppling. The overall effect is a vision of twentieth century Hungarian society that no standard history can convey.
- Contents:
- Guide to Hungarian Names and Phonetics xiii
- The Death of a Mayor 3
- Unearned Honors at Tiszadomb High School 4
- Study Tiszadomb 7
- Overview of the Community 14
- 2. The Boglars: An Odomb Peasant Family 21
- The "Blessed Village" 22
- Beginnings: Turn of the Century 25
- World War I: Sandor 27
- Between the Wars: Denes 30
- World War II 36
- End of the War: Tamas 39
- The "Peasant Question" 41
- Odomb No More 47
- The First Cooperatives 49
- The Revolution of 1956 50
- The Collectivization of Agriculture 54
- Tamas: A New Beginning 58
- The New Economic Mechanism 59
- New Age at Tiszadomb 62
- Tamas: The Making of an Entrepreneur 70
- 3. The Faragos of Ujdomb 79
- Origins 81
- The Turn of the Century 82
- Mihaly: The First Bolshevik 87
- Ujdomb Between the Wars 94
- Bela: Eking Out an Existence in the Interwar Years 95
- World War II 97
- Land Reform 100
- The Proletarian Dictatorship 109
- Bela: Early Collectives 112
- Ferenc: A Socialist Childhood 116
- Counterrevolution 117
- The New Wave of Collectivization 120
- Ferenc: Out of Peasantry 125
- The Golden Years 129
- 4. Pinter Katalin: A Life Formed on the Farmlands 136
- The "Borderlands" or "Farm World" 136
- Family 140
- Early Years 145
- School Years 148
- High School 153
- Teachers' College 155
- After College 157
- University Student and High School Teacher 161
- Economic and Political Developments in the Country 164
- The Opposition 167
- The Dawning of Political Consciousness 170
- 5. Conclusion: The Beginning and the End 172
- "Unearned Honors" and the Press 172
- The Court Hearing 179
- 6. Postscript: Waiting for Rebirth 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765607409
- OCLC:
- 46937588
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