The Fate of Western Hungary 1918-1921 - Corvinus Library ...

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József Botlik (1949- ) PhD, researcher of minorities, historian, lecturer of
the School of Philosophy of the Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem [Peter
Pazmany Catholic University]. He has been studying, for the past four decades,
the turbulent history of the 3.5 million ethnic Magyars torn from Hungary by
the June 4, 1920 Peace Treaty of Trianon. He has written 15 books and 200
papers on the subject, as well as 80 radio and television programs. His major
research region has been Sub-Carpathia [Ruthenia] but his works also cover the
changing situation of Hungarians in the former Hungarian territories of
Northern Hungary, Transylvania and Vojvodina.
His current book takes the reader to western Hungary, which burst into
flames in the aftermath of the unjust Trianon decision. Here, the territorial
robbers of Hungary cast their eyes on an area, populated not only by
Hungarians but also Germans, Croats and Vends (Slovenes), who never wanted
to be separated from the country. Making use of all the printed and archival
material, the well-written monograph clearly presents the plans and claims of
not only the Entente Great Powers but also those of Austria, Czechoslovakia,
Romania and Serbia. He outlines national political struggles of the country
recovering from the shock of the two traitorous ‘revolutions’ of 1918-1919. He
discusses in detail the glorious revolution of August-September 1921 in western
Hungary, in legitimate response to the perfidious actions of its former ally,
Austria. In contradiction to the earlier Marxist-Communist historiographic
practice, this work does justice to the brave effort made by the state of
Lajtabánság [Lajta-Banat-ed.] (October 4 – November 4, 1921), created after
the Austrians were ejected from western Hungary.
Finally, it confirms the role of this brave national resistance in forcing the
December 14-16, 1921 plebiscite in Sopron, as a result of which the town of
Sopron and surrounding villages were returned to Hungary, and salvaging a
small measure of national honor.
Kolofon
The title of the original book:
Nyugat-Magyarország sorsa 1918–1921
Vasszilvágy, 2008. Magyar Nyugat Könyvkiadó.
ISBN 9789638761231
Libray of Congress DB955 .B667 2008
Second amended, edited edition
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