"Home Is Home No Longer": Political Struggle in the Domestic Sphere in Postarmistice Hungary, 1919-1922.

Autor: Gioielli, Emily R.
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Zdroj: Aspasia; Mar2017, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p54-70, 17p
Abstrakt: This article analyzes the social history of the revolutionary and counterrevolutionary struggles in postarmistice Hungary as they played out in the Hungarian domestic sphere. Using court cases and statements made to legal aid bureaus in Budapest, it examines how elites and the middle class reasserted their social and political power by using legal channels and the threat of denunciation to seek revenge and retribution on domestic employees and neighbors. It also explores how revolutionary and counterrevolutionary politics affected conflicts over housing in Budapest. By exploring the gendered nature of transitional and retroactive justice in counterrevolutionary Hungary, this article shows the blurring of the line between personal and political violence. It also demonstrates that women played an important role in counterrevolutionary politics by assisting state efforts to reassert traditional social and political hierarchies in the domestic sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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