Magyarország politikai berendezkedése a két világháború között
The Political System of Hungary between the Two World Wars

Summary/Abstract: After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic on August 1, 1919, the coalition government of Károly Huszár set out to normalize the political situation after November 1919. By the middle of 1920, a dualistic political system had emerged which showed the characteristics of a parliamentary democracy as well as of a dictatorship.The transitional character of the system disappeared with the premiership of István Bethlen, who introduced a new state and governmental system in the first phase of his government between 1921 and 1926. This essay surveys the phases of this process and makes an attempt to define precisely the characteristics of the political system introduced by Bethlen. According to the author, a parliamentarian political system emerged in Hungary by the mid-1920s with some characteristics of an authoritarian regime at the same time. This system had to face serious challenges during the 1930s, among which the emergence of the extreme right was the most important. Such reforms had been incorporated into the system during the 1930s, as the result of which it can described as an authoritarian regime after 1939. This system existed until March 1944, when Nazi Germany occupied the country.

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