Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO)
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Kyrill Kunakhovich:Communism’s Public Sphere. Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany
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Die „Plünderungen“ in Oberungarn im Herbst 1918 – bolschewistische Anarchie oder nationale Revolution?
No full textThis article examines the significance of the so-called “lootings” (rabovačky) in UpperHungary in the autumn of 1918, when receding soldiers and broad sections of the populationattacked the representatives of state power and Jewish innkeepers stereotyped as “usurers.”In addition to their anti-Jewish character, their symbolic content, in which revolt against theold order was accompanied by carnivalesque violent mockery of it, is elaborated upon. Thegreatest attention, however, is paid to the political instrumentalization of the “lootings” onthe part of the representatives of the new Czechoslovak state. This instrumentalizationranged from appropriation (albeit hesitant, given their violent nature) to condemnation: theformer for the “Czechoslovak revolution” in the post-war years, the latter as a prelude toBolshevization at the height of the economic crisis in the early 1930s
