Paramilitary violence in Hungary after the first world war

Bodo seeks to answer several questions concerning the paramilitary violence in Hungary after the First World War through a close examination of the diary of Pal Pronay, the head of Admiral Miklos Horthy's bodyguards and the leader of the most important paramilitary unit between 1919 and 1922. H...

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Published in:East European quarterly 2004-06, Vol.38 (2), p.129-172
Main Author: Bodo, Bela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Army
Atrocities
Bureaucracy
Communism
Government
Historians
History
Horthy de Nagybanya, Miklos (1868-1957)
Hungary
Military aid
Militia groups
Militias
Minority & ethnic groups
Murders & murder attempts
Offenses
Oppression
Paramilitary Forces
Paramilitary groups
Personal profiles
Political Violence
Politics
Pronay, Pal
Violence
War
World War I
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Summary:Bodo seeks to answer several questions concerning the paramilitary violence in Hungary after the First World War through a close examination of the diary of Pal Pronay, the head of Admiral Miklos Horthy's bodyguards and the leader of the most important paramilitary unit between 1919 and 1922. He also argues that the link between the crimes committed by paramilitary groups and the creation of the Horthy regime was more tenuous, and the early years of the new government cannot be understood from the narrow angle of the White Terror. That the postwar militia should not be equated with regular army units, and the professional army of the 1920s and early 1930s should not be seen as the direct successor of the militias that had terrorized the population between 1919 and 1920.
ISSN:0012-8449
2469-4827