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Making the Hungarian Communist: Political Agitation, Mass Mobilization, and Everyday Life, 1948-1953

By Heléna Huhák, David Robert Evans (Translator)
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By Heléna Huhák, David Robert Evans (Translator)
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How do political parties integrate propaganda into ordinary citizens' lives? After coming into power in 1948, the communist Hungarian Workers' Party (MDP) drew on tried-and-true Soviet methods of political outreach, mobilizing a network of agitators to circulate communist ideology and report their observations back to party leadership. These agitators produced maps, searched homes, and taught "petty bourgeois" self-criticism and "party-conform" love and hate.

Making the Hungarian Communist s...