Underground Streams : : National-Conservatives after World War II in Communist Hungary and Eastern Europe / / ed. by János M. Rainer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2023
• HerausgeberIn: Rainer, János M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

The authors of this edited volume address the hidden attraction that existed between the extremes of left and right, and of internationalism and nationalism under the decades of communist dictatorship in Eastern Europe. One might suppose that under the suppressive regimes based on leftist ideology a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Underground Streams: National-Conservatives after World War II in Communist Hungary and Eastern Europe
• Part One: The Right-Wing Tradition in Eastern Europe after 1945
• 1. The Romanian Ideology: Merging Political Extremes in a National Stalinist Discourse
• 2. Absent Traditions: Right-Wing Strands in Slovakian Politics
• 3. A Round-Trip through the Czech Lands: The Origins of a Liberal Right Revolution
• 4. Conservative Right-Wing Political Thinking in Hungary after 1945
• Part Two: Right-Wing Enemies through the Lens of State Security
• 5. Social Resistance under the Kádár Regime and the “Right-Wing” Enemies of State Security
• 6. Christian Democrats under Fire from the Political Police, 1945–1989
• 7. “Petty” Arrow Cross Supporters in the Interior Ministry Files
• Part Three: Personal Life Paths and Strategies
• 8. “I Was Brought up the Old Way, I’m a Conservative”: A Middle-Class Christian Looks Back on His Life
• 9. A Nationalist of Successive Periods: Miklós Mester (1906–1989)
• 10. From Right to Left – or Not? Béla Csikós – Nagy, a Paradigmatical Opportunist of Transition
• List of Contributors
• Index