Have you heard about the Hungarian Soviet Republic?

[Gavrilo93]

I'm a big fan of this period of history. I think that the Hungarian Soviet Republic was more sincerely communist than the Hungarian People's Republic which was a satellite state of the Soviet Union.

If you've never heard about this interesting experiment (or if you would like to know more about it) there is an excellent article about in marxist . com titled: "The Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 - The forgotten revolution. (This f*cking website still does not let me to post links...)



What's your opinion about it?

[Inquilabzindabad]

You must anyway share the best of links you want to .I think there's no bar in doing so.
Well, didn't here anywhere about Hungarian Revolution.
Might be a new topic to learn about for one and all.So you are welcome to break the ice on it !

[Gavrilo93]

No, the website actually doesn't let me to post links because I'm still a new member. As I said the title of the article is "The Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 - The forgotten revolution." and it can be found on marxist . com

Perhaps if you find the article you can post it here for the others.

[Babeufist]

Yes, I heard about the Hungarian Soviet Republic. It was a great experiment but Hungarian communists under Bela Kun leadership made some sectarian errors. And Bela Kun was kind of Hungarian national-communist, fighting for "Great Hungary", therefore national minorities (like Slovaks or Romanians) were against the HSR.
A little known fact is that the short-living successor of the HSR was Baranyan Republic (1921).
Well, there were also Slovak and Bavarian Soviet republics in this period and this region.

[Gavrilo93]

I agree that they made many mistakes. But I think that you are wrong about their nationalism. In fact, one of their first measure was to give equal rights to every ethnic minority in the country. Actually, many proletariat in the Romanian Army denied participating in the war against their Hungarian brothers, and faced the consequences (punishment) for it. As far as "Greater Hungary" is concerned: Greater Hungary is a modern concept. It was after the Soviet Republic that Hungary lost 2/3 of its territory. Therefore Kun could not believe in Greater Hungary yet. They merely protected their own homeland.

The Slovak Soviet Republic was a puppet state of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. It was actually abandoned by the army of Hungary because they wanted to express their goodwill towards the Entente to make peace. (Which was another mistake of course, but at least it proves that they were not nationalists, they only protected their home.)

Thanks for the info about the Baranyan Republic. I didn' know that one.

[Babeufist]

I think that you are wrong about their nationalism
It is not my opinion only. About "national communism" of Bela Kun I read in the article by Marxist Loren Goldner http://dev.autonomedia.org/node/3136 but also in several books (for example: Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries, The Balkans: A Post-Communist History, p. 130). Of course it was not any kind of chauvinism nor open nationalism but more subtle crypto-nationalism (or, if you want, mobilization in the name of national liberation).

[Raul Castro]

http://www.marxist.com/hungarian-soviet-republic-1919.htm this the link

[Inquilabzindabad]

I read about The Hungarian Revolution. only few sentenences at most in S.R. Bakshi's book