5/ Catholicism and anti-communism: the reactions of Irish intellectuals to revolutionary changes in Hungary (1918-1939)
di Lili Zách
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 33, 1|2018
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Italiano
Nonostante fosse lontana dai luoghi in cui si sviluppava il conflitto, sul continente, l’Irlanda interbellica fu comunque esposta alle influenze dei movimenti politici di estrema sinistra ed estrema destra. In genere molti nazionalisti irlandesi adottarono una posizione anticomunista senza compromessi e utilizzarono la mancanza di stabilità nell’Europa centro-orientale per esaltare il significato dei valori cattolici dopo la rivoluzione bolscevica del 1917. Questo articolo esamina l’atteggiamento degli intellettuali irlandesi nei confronti dei cambiamenti politici estremi avvenuti nell’Ungheria post-bellica. Ambisce inoltre a mettere in luce la complessità del concetto di “paura rossa” e la sua eredità in relazione con l’antisemitismo e perfino con la questione dei confini durante gli anni Trenta.
Parole chiave: anticomunismo, storia transnazionale, bolscevichi, Ungheria, Irlanda.
English
Although far from the centres of conflict on the Continent, interwar Ireland was also exposed to the influence of extreme left and right-wing political movements. Overall, most Irish nationalists adopted an uncompromisingly anti-Communist stance and used the lack of political stability in East-Central Europe to emphasise the significance of Catholic values following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. The present paper examines the attitude of Irish intellectuals to extreme political changes in post-war Hungary. It also aims to highlight the complexity of the “red scare” and its legacy in relation to anti-Semitism and even the border question throughout the 1930s.
Keywords: Anti-communism, transnational history, Bolshevik, Hungary, Ireland.
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Lili Zách has received her Masters Degrees in English (with specialization in Irish Studies) and History at the University of Szeged, Hungary, in 2006. She completed a PhD at the National University of Ireland, Galway, focusing on Irish perceptions of the small successor states of Austria-Hungary, 1914-1945. Her primary research interest lies in the field of Irish and Central European history in a transnational framework, with special attention to Irish links with Continental Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Zách, Lili, «Catholicism and anti-communism: the reactions of Irish intellectuals to revolutionary changes in Hungary (1918-1939)», Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 33, 1|2018
URL: <http://www.studistorici.com/2018/03/29/zach_numero_33/>
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«Catholicism and anti-communism: the reactions of Irish intellectuals to revolutionary changes in Hungary (1918-1939)» by Lili Zách / Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione – Condividi allo stesso modo 3.0 Unported.
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