Attila Simon: Az átmenet bizonytalansága. Az 1918/1919-es impériumváltás Pozsonytól Kassáig [The Uncertainty of Transition: The 1918/1919 Change of Sovereignty from Bratislava to Košice] Cover Image

Attila Simon: Az átmenet bizonytalansága. Az 1918/1919-es impériumváltás Pozsonytól Kassáig [The Uncertainty of Transition: The 1918/1919 Change of Sovereignty from Bratislava to Košice]
Attila Simon: Az átmenet bizonytalansága. Az 1918/1919-es impériumváltás Pozsonytól Kassáig [The Uncertainty of Transition: The 1918/1919 Change of Sovereignty from Bratislava to Košice]

Author(s): Gergely Bödők
Subject(s): Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Book-Review
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Keywords: Hungarians; the establishment of the Czechoslovak state; 1918/1919; occupation; invaders; local events; individual destinies

Summary/Abstract: In his latest book, Simon assumes a “lower perspective” of this kind, in order to show the feelings and the perceptions of “a Hungarian of the Felvidék [the ethnic Hungarian area in modern Slovakia] during the spring or summer of 1919”, when the “Trianon trauma” was starting to be perceivable, but all seemed changeable and temporary. The book’s timeline is defined by the local events of the autumn of 1918, in a country exhausted by war and on the verge of falling apart, on the one hand; the end point is the early winter of 1919.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/2022
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 103-107
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English