Borsodi Levéltári Évkönyv 3. (Miskolc, 1980)
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THE FIRST WEEKS OF SOCIALIST CONSOLIDATION IN COUNTY BORSOD-ABAÚJ-ZEMPLÉN, 4 NOVEMBER - 19 NOVEMBER 1956 László Kun Starting on 4 November the actions of the Soviet troops, the help‘of which had been called upon by the Revolutionary Workers’ and Peasants’ Government, caused the armed forces of the counter-revolution to break up. On 6 November the Revolutionary Workers’ and Peasants’ Committee took over leadership in the county from the third workers’ council which had repudiated the recognition of the government and hence having been arrested. The Revolutionary Workers’ and Peasants’ Committee, which was a coalition body with a firm communist leadership, made its most important duty to start production, restore public order and to normalize life after having recognized the new government. Its formation was necessary for tactical reasons, its activity was undoubtedly positive. The results of activities of the Revolutionary Workers’and Peasants’Committee were destroyed by the repeated attacks of the counter-revolutionary forces which had been reorganized by the middle of November. By the middle of November revisionism had again become the most important ideological means of the right wing forces in the county. From 13 November a strong attack was launched against the Revolutionary Workers’ and Peasants’ Government and the Revolutionary Workers’ and Peasants’ Committee. The documents adopted by the factory workers’ councils in Ózd and LKM demanded the re-establishment of Imre Nagy’s government, neutrality, the withdrawal of the Soviet troops, but their main demand aimed at the reorganization of the county workers’ council. Between 13 and 16 November the situation in the county was similar to a political stalemate; neither the communists nor the right wing was able to bring the matter to a head. In order to ease the situation a compromise had been made; out of the released presidium of the third county workers’ council the fourth county workers’ council had been organized. Through the organization of the fourth county workers’ council a unity of political actions hand been formed between communists and revisionists for performing immediate tasks. We consider the compromise of November reasonable and necessary on the whole. Namely, this compromise helped to separate the workers’ councils in the town from the forces organizing round KMT in Greater Budapest. 296
