 | HUNGARY 1930 AND THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF A MASS PROTEST
by Bob Dent
In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan 'Work and Bread!'. Many were injured and one person was killed as the police used swords and, at one point, fired into the crowd.
This study sketches the political history of the Hungarian labour movement from the late 19th century to the 1920s and the build-up to the 1930 protest, Hungary's largest in the inter-war period.
Drawing on contemporary newspaper accounts and recollections of participants, it asks:
Why did such a big demonstration take place?
How did it come about?
What happened on 1 September 1930?
What was the reaction to police repression?
It also reviews subsequent historiography and the development of Hungary's labour movement politics after 1930.
"Bob Dent's short book is a good introduction to a forgotten period of working class history. It is also a good primer for the history of a country that few people in Britain will know." ResoluteReader
"Turn back 82 years, to 1 September 1930.... it only gets short thrift in nowadays’ history books and memorials. This is precisely where Bob Dent’s well researched and highly readable book opens...Dent rightly closes with a call for its importance to be reassessed, not in its version celebrated by the Communist Party but as an episode of Hungarian labour history in its own right." Budapest Times
ISBN. 978-0-85036-659-4
Paperback, approx. 180 pages
Published April 2012
Price:£13.95
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