In the Margins of a Party Resolution
In the Margins of a Party Resolution

The 1968 Resolution of the Political Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party on the Situation of the Nationalities in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: After World War II, the political elite in the communist countries called for the assimilation of national minorities (the “nationalities”) into majority society. A change of approach came only in the latter half of the 1960s. With a focus on Hungary, the study examines the foreign and domestic political factors that led to a review of the earlier doctrinaire policies towards the minorities. It presents the political regime’s altered stance on the nationalities question and the reasons for the change.

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