Pécs és Baranya 1956-ban - Baranyai történelmi közlemények 3. A Baranya Megyei Levéltár Évkönyve 2008 (BML, 2008)

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Péter Bán: The revolutionary bodies of town Pécs and County Baranya The author analyses the composition and activities of the leading institutions, bodies of the revolution of Baranya county and town Pécs. The members of the National Council for the Working Class of Baranya County were those who were elected from the delegates of Workers' council of factories, plants, companies of Pécs. Besides them, representatives of the MEFESZ of the university of Pécs played a determining role, too. Leaders of the workers' council of the county pursued a moderate policy, they prevented radical workers and young people from occupying the building of the State Security Authority {AVH}. University students attacked the leadership of the national council which was weak in their view as well as its cooperation with exleaders of Rákosi-régime, thus, they claimed new elections of soviets at county level. In the course of the establishment of the workers' council of the county it sent control commissions for the supervision of administrative institutions and those of power both at county and at town level. Then, it elected its own bodies, the military council, the National Guard, the secretariat and, later, the executive board which carried aut administrative tasks. The provisions of the county workers' council had not achieved a success in several cases, thus they could not obtain the documents compromising the State Security Authority {AVH}. The author analyses the defensive situation of the town as well as the activities of the military council and, moreover, talks about the measures taken at the time of the Soviet conquest. The author dedicates a separate chapter to the reshuffling of parties of Pécs—Independent Small Holders' Party, the Social Democratic Party

—as well as to the establishment of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party as well as the to the introduction of their work lasting for a short term. Attila Márfi: Vince Vörös, the politician of the small- holders'

1 party, in the revolution of 1956: sources of 1956 in the document material of Vince Vörös The author draws up a study on the activities of the recently deceased politician, Vince Vörös, which activities were carried out in the revolution of 1956. Vince Vörös implemented his political activities in Baranya county within the Independent Small-Holders' Party, though was also a significant politician at country level. He drafts the course of life of Vince Vörös. The farmer coming from Bakonya, having small-holder parents, became a member of the opponent small-holders' party in the Horthy-régime and was one of the founders of the peasants' association. Following the year 1945 he was the assistant secretary of the smallholders'party. He was also brought an accusation against concerning anty-republican conspiracy, though he avoided imprisonment. His lands of Bakonya were reseize d and he was deported. During the revolution he reorganized the Hungarian Peasants' Association,