https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/e7b0c55a-6c90-40e6-a3bb-a92c1a1dd54d Playlist with all the episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS6GirUcyM-53gm0T6f0Kc0 This episode discusses the cultural revolution during the first Five Year Plan (1949-53). Script: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/history-of-the-hungarian-peoples-republic-part-10-revolution-in-culture/ Also see my page on Hungarian revolutionary and progressive art, which is still being updated: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2021/05/08/art-in-socialist-hungary/ SOURCES: Jörg K. Hoensch, A history of modern Hungary Bennett Kovrig, Communism in Hungary: from Kun to Kādār Rakosi, Report to the Second Congress of the Hungarian Working People's Party https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi51.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NASsT6iC8 Eric Roman, Hungary and the victor powers, 1945-1950 Randolph L. Braham, Education in the Hungarian People's Republic Ervin Pamlényi, A History of Hungary* Marianna Norris, Young Hungary; children of Hungary at work and at play Rakosi, Speech Delivered at the Election Rally of the Hungarian People’s Independence Front in Budapest on May 10, 1953 https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/rakosi530510.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9tKnYyOU54 Henrik Vass, Studies on the History of the Hungarian Working-Class Movement (1867-1966)* Gyula Kállai, The Counter-Revolution in Hungary in the Light of Marxism-Leninism Norman Stone, Hungary: A Short History David Pryce-Jones, The Hungarian Revolution Paul Lendvai, The Hungarians Béla Menczer, A commentary on Hungarian literature Bennett Kovrig, The Hungarian People's Republic Zinner, The Revolution in Hungary Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism Thomas Aczel & Tibor Meray, The Revolt Of The Mind Shuster, In Silence I speak Dezső Nemes, History of the Revolutionary Workers Movement in Hungary: 1944-1962* Ernst Helmreich, Hungary “Culture and education”, on the 1956 institute website Ágnes Eitlereitler, "The “Re-Tuning” of János Arany's Life and Work in the Popular Education of the 1950s" Zoltan Halasz, Unkari: kuvitettu tietoteos ["Hungary: an illustrated information book"] János Berecz, 1956 counter-revolution in Hungary: words and weapons* Paul Ignotus, Hungary Alan Blackwood, The Hungarian Uprising Jozsef Revai, Lukacs and Socialist Realism https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.237350/page/n1/mode/2up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdjidNdG5IA Gábor Rieder, A History of Hungarian Socialist Realist Painting 1949-1956 Ideology and Existence Wilfred G. Burchett, Peoples' Democracies https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/burch0.htm Michael Gold, The Worker, N. Y., July 9, 1950 *Pamlényi, Vass, Nemes and Berecz are kadarist historians. Their books contain a lot of good information but also wrongfully slander Rakosi and defend revisionism. You can find their books here under the “Hungary” section: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/the-real-history-of-the-soviet-union/ My patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik My discord https://discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK My blog https://mltheory.wordpress.com/ My Email thefinnishbolshevik@gmail.com Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:50:17 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/e7b0c55a-6c90-40e6-a3bb-a92c1a1dd54d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.