Magyar revíziós külpolitika a két világháború között
Interwar Hungarian Foreign Policy

Summary/Abstract: The foreign policy of interwar Hungary aimed at the revision of the Treaty of Trianon and at the possible most complete restoration of Hungary’s territorial losses following World War I. The partisans of the so-called integral (complete) revision wished to restore Hungary’s old frontiers, invoking „historical rights”, „administrative abilities” and the regional „cultural supremacy” of the Hungarians, along with their „self-sacrificing wars in defence of Western civilisation” against subsequent Eastern invasions. They also made reference to the economic and geographical unity of the Carpathian Basin and to the resulting organical regional cooperation, the disruption of which, as they maintained, brought unfavourable effects for all nations concerned. The spokesmen of ethnic revision, on the other hand, would have been satisfied with a readjustment of Hungary’s political frontiers along the ethnic (or linguistic) lines. This concept was based on the principle of national self-determination, claiming that every (national) community had the right to decide about its own superior administrative institutions, and likewise the right to choose the state authority to which it wished to subordinate itself. The essay ventures to demonstrate the influences of these two different concepts on interwar Hungarian foreign policy.

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