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Rosika Schwimmer, the Extraordinary Hungarian Feminist and Pacifist

In recognition of her accomplishments in organizing the feminist Congress in Budapest, Schwimmer was asked to join the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in its London office as a press secretary. Soon after her arrival to the United Kingdom World War I broke out, where Hungary and the UK found themselves in opposing trenches. Shaken by the news of war, Schwimmer committed herself to bringing together feminist and pacifist leaders to stop the bloodshed.

Jean Godefroy, The Congress of Vienna (1819). Museu Histório e Diplomático – Palácio do Itamaraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sovereign Yet Confederal?

‘The ideological models that had emerged at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries…had transformed social thinking and humanity’s view of the world to such an extent that it was impossible to maintain and preserve the earlier, semi-feudal Europe. This in turn meant that ethnicity and nationality, previously considered less significant elements…became a determining factor, leading not only to an exploration of the historical past of a given community, in the search for national heroes, but also to a demand for political unification with ethnic or linguistic compatriots within a single country.’

Horthy rides his white horse as he marches on Budapest on 16 November 1919.

16 November: End of a Chaotic Era for Hungary, and the Prelude to a New One

16 November marks the day when Rear Admiral, and later Regent, Miklós Horthy marched into Budapest in 1919, symbolically ending the Hungarian Soviet Republic. This remains a controversial event to this very day: while on the one hand, it ended a period of chaos and dictatorship, on the other hand, it bolstered the so-called White Terror.

Wonders, Treasures, Mysteries: A Visit to the Renovated Festetics Palace in Dég

The history of the palace in Dég, Hungary is not only intertwined with that of the Festetics family, but also with Freemasonry in Hungary, as the palace’s builder, Antal Festetics, was the right-hand man of the movement’s Master Chief in the country. Magyar Krónika paid a visit to the newly renovated Festetics Palace in Dég.

Coronation of Francis Joseph in Buda on 8 June 1867 by Edmund Tull.

Kuruc or Labanc? Hungary’s Eternal Fault Line — Part IV

‘The kuruc were never mindless rabble-rousers, just like the labanc were never simply unpatriotic traitors. While the merits and good practices of kuruc and 49ist politicians have been been amply publicised and celebrated, the labanc side was often sidelined, and as a result, their perspectives and values are still missing from contemporary politics. It would be worth devoting more attention to the ideas of the Young Conservatives from the Era of Reform. They understood that while our interests must be unwaveringly represented and fought for, Hungary cannot stand alone in turbulent times.’

Hungary’s Embittered Search for a National Identity after 1920

Losing the World War and the experience of the Treaty of Trianon triggered a discourse in Hungarian public life that was not without precedent, but had never been so vehement before. Perhaps the opinion of many was reflected by the renowned writer Ferenc Herczeg, who declared that ‘Europe, free press, liberalism—all these are slogans that have deceived us.’

How Radical Fringes Meet: The Ideas of Béla Kun and the Counter-Revolutionary Regime

Paradoxically, Communist Béla Kun and the contemporary nationalist racists had more in common in terms of their views than the Communist leader had with the social-democratic and the left-leaning bourgeois émigrés.

‘I Won’t Be a Street Sweeper’ — The Contradictions of Left-Wing Emigrant Life

Aversion to work was not unique to the leaders of the emigration. After a while, Mihály Révész, a social-democratic journalist in exile, had enough of living abroad and tried to get a job in Budapest. But when his left-wing friends found him a job as a manual worker, he turned it down, indignantly declaring ‘I won’t be a street sweeper’.

Sore Losers or Dangerous Terrorists? The Left-Wing Emigration in 1921

Although the official Hungarian propaganda constantly portrayed the ‘dark figures’ of the leftist emigration as plotting from abroad against Hungary, the surviving primary sources show a picture of ineffectual losers fighting among themselves.

Remembering the Aster Revolution Laying the Foundation of the First Hungarian Republic

In the last days of World War I, dissatisfied soldiers in Budapest revolted against the establishment, demanding Hungary’s independence and democratisation. Their uprising, the Aster Revolution is known to be the only successful Hungarian revolution.

Search results: Mihály Károlyi

Rosika Schwimmer, the Extraordinary Hungarian Feminist and Pacifist

Sovereign Yet Confederal?

16 November: End of a Chaotic Era for Hungary, and the Prelude to a New One

Wonders, Treasures, Mysteries: A Visit to the Renovated Festetics Palace in Dég

Kuruc or Labanc? Hungary’s Eternal Fault Line — Part IV

Hungary’s Embittered Search for a National Identity after 1920

How Radical Fringes Meet: The Ideas of Béla Kun and the Counter-Revolutionary Regime

‘I Won’t Be a Street Sweeper’ — The Contradictions of Left-Wing Emigrant Life

Sore Losers or Dangerous Terrorists? The Left-Wing Emigration in 1921

Remembering the Aster Revolution Laying the Foundation of the First Hungarian Republic

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