Minorities in Hungary Since 1948∗
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 22-35
ISSN: 1465-3923
The uneven course of Hungary's domestic politics and its relations with its socialist neighbors, which have large Magyar populations, has deeply affected the evolution of its minorities' policies since 1948. Initially, the minorities question seemed to be an insignificant issue, since 1949 census figures showed that only 128,758 people out of a total population of 9,204 799 chose something other than Hungarian as their primary language.