Overview

In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan 'Work and Bread!'. Many were injured and one person was killed as the police used swords and, at one point, fired into the crowd. This study sketches the political history of the Hungarian labour movement from the late 19th century to the 1920s and the build-up to the 1930 protest, Hungary's largest in the inter-war period. Drawing on contemporary newspaper accounts and recollections of participants, it asks: Why did such a big demonstration take place? How did it come about? What happened on 1 September 1930? What was the reaction to police repression? It also reviews subsequent historiography and the development of Hungary's labour movement politics after 1930.

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Dent's book gives a key not only to the labor history of interwar Hungary, but also to the understanding of an aspect of the Hungarian political thinking in the second half of the twentieth century. It fills a gap in both areas; it offers a witty insight for its foreign readers, but it would be really useful reading for the Hungarian public as well. --Peter Konok, tandfonline.com

Author Information

Bob Dent is a journalist and the author of Budapest for Children, Blue Guide Budapest, and Blue Guide Hungary.

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