| Abstrakt: |
The crisis and disintegration of the monolithic party-state system generated a flood of parties, and from 1987 to 1990 nearly 70 parties were founded. The main scene of party formation was the Jurta Theatre in the People's Park, which was founded in a special constellation of the regime change. This "stage" has become an emblematic venue of political changes thanks to the opposition groups. It is little known, however, that the former playground became a meeting place for radical right critics by mid-1989, after László Romhányi, an actor and director who built and ran the private theatre, stepped out of the mainstream due to his political ambitions. With the participation of revolutionaries of 1956 and far-right Hungarian emigrants, Romhányi also founded three radical nationalist parties with great, but unrealistic, hopes of victory. The tendencies, organizations, and politicians of right-wing radicals were excluded from the tactical alliance of democratic and popular opposition-wings (EKA) and elites. Consequently, the Jurta Theatre, as the opposition of legitimate changes, became a political entity itself, from which the notion of "sabotaged regime change" was born. The article discusses the organization of the radical right movement (Jurta) and the original conflicts of the Jurta's dramaturgy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
