 | The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921 Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Central Asian Russian & Eastern European Studies; History; Religion; Political Philosophy; European History; Jewish Studies; Fascism & Nazism; Marxism & Communism; Modern History 1750-1945; The White Terror was a movement of right-wing militias that for two years actively tracked down, tortured, and murdered members of the Jewish community, as well as former supporters of the short-lived Council Republic in the years following World War I. It can be argued that this example of a programme of virulent antisemitism laid the foundations for Hungarian participation in the Holocaust. Given the rightward shift of Hungarian politics today, this book has a particular resonance in re-examining the social and historical context of the White Terror. Béla Bodó is Professor of East European History at the University of Bonn. He is the author of Tiszazug: The Social History of a Murder Epidemic . |
