From the Vanguard to the Margins: Selected Essays by Mark Pittaway
In: Historical Materialism Book Ser. v.66
In: Historical Materialism Book Series
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In: Historical Materialism Book Ser. v.66
In: Historical Materialism Book Series
In: Russian and East European Studies
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword (Nigel Swain) -- Introduction -- 1. The Limits of Liberation March 1944-November 1945 -- 2. Struggles for Legitimacy November 1945-August 1947 -- 3. The Social Roots of Dictatorship August 1947-August 1949 -- 4. Revolution in Production August 1949-January 1951 -- 5. Expanding Workforces, Reproducing Traditions January 1951-June 1953 -- 6. Dynamics of Reform and Retreat June 1953-February 1956 -- 7. The Process of Revolution February-November 1956 -- 8. The Foundations of Consolidation November 1956-June 1958 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
In: Brief histories
In: International review of social history, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 123-125
ISSN: 1469-512X
In: Contemporary European history, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 345-364
ISSN: 1469-2171
AbstractThis article examines the process of state reconstruction in Austria and Hungary's borderlands that followed the Second World War. This process of state reconstruction was also a process of pacification, as it represented an attempt to (re)build states on the foundations of the military settlement of the war. The construction of legitimate state authority was at its most successful on the Austrian side of the border, where political actors were able to gain legitimacy by creating a state that acted as an effective protector of the immediate demands of the local community for security from a variety of threats. On the Hungarian side of the border the state was implicated with some of the actors who were seen as threatening local communities, something that produced political polarisation. These differences set the stage for the transition from war to cold war in the borderlands.
In: European history quarterly, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 164-166
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Diplomacy and statecraft, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 477-479
ISSN: 1557-301X
In: Diplomacy & statecraft, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 477-480
ISSN: 0959-2296
In: Diplomacy & statecraft, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 477-479
ISSN: 0959-2296
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 65, Heft 3, S. 580-581
ISSN: 2325-7784
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 68, S. 1-8
ISSN: 1471-6445
The essays in this special issue by Jack R. Friedman, Sándor Horváth, Peter Heumos, and Eszter Zsófia Tóth, reflect a growing interest in the social history of industrial labor and industrial communities in postwar Central and Eastern Europe. While they approach their subjects in different ways and employing distinct methodologies, the essays suggest how the history of the working class and its relationship to postwar socialist state formation across the region might be rethought. They illustrate how the protracted construction and consolidation of socialist states in the region was negotiated on an everyday level by working-class citizens, and that this was a dynamic process in which state projects interacted with a variety of working-class cultures, that were in turn segmented by notions of gender, skill, generation, and occupation. The essays all demonstrate, in their different ways, how working-class Eastern Europeans were not simply acted upon by the operation of dictatorial state power, but played a role in state formation across the region. This role was characterized by an ambiguous relationship between workers and those in power who sought legitimacy by claiming that their states represented the interests of the "working class." Yet the policies those in power pursued often confronted working-class communities directly in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania, as these essays suggest. This produced a complex relationship characterized by consent, accommodation and conflict that varied from locality to locality, state to state, and from period to period.
In: International affairs, Band 81, Heft 1, S. 239
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Heft 68, S. 1-8
ISSN: 0147-5479
In: Contemporary European history, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 453-475
ISSN: 1469-2171
This article presents a re-examination of Hungary's postwar transition from the perspective of the politics of legitimacy that were deployed by the various significant political actors. It argues that postwar state formation following Soviet occupation and legitimacy were closely connected. Hungary's communists and their allies aimed to create a state based on the ideological formula of 'people's democracy', which in the Hungarian context led them to build a state based on the restricted social base of the industrial working class. They ignored or antagonised alternative political traditions, particularly those associated with the rural majority and middle classes, which were instead mobilised by an alternative project that rested on a democratised conservatism. This created two visions of a potential postwar political order. The contest between these two visions generated the bitter political struggles that characterised the late 1940s and shaped the social roots of dictatorship in the country.
In: Cold war history, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 97-116
ISSN: 1743-7962