Ságvári Ágnes (szerk.): Budapest. The History of a Capital (Budapest, 1975)
Contents
Contents Foreword 7 The Medieval Sister Cities András Kubinyi Buda, Pest, Óbuda 11 Social Conditions 16 Trade, Crafts, and the Cultural Life of the City 19 Buda and Pest under the Turkish Occupation 22 Pest-Buda from 1686 to 1849 25 Vera Bácskai The Rise to Capital Status 25 Development into a Capital 29 The Centre of Political Life 34 Capital of the Revolution 35 From City to Metropolis (1849-1919) 37 Károly Vörös On the Road to Union 37 Growth of the Metropolis 39 Paradoxes of Progress 43 Capital of the Hungarian Soviet Republic 45 Budapest in the Inter-War Period (1919-1945) 46 Zsuzsa L. Nagy Budapest under the Counter-revolutionary Regime 47 The Capital and Its Contradictions 49 Left-Wing Opposition in Budapest 53 Budapest in the Second World War 55 From the Liberation to Greater Budapest (1945-1950) 58 Gáspár Ferenc The Beginnings of Reconstruction 58 Conflicts of the Coalition Period 61 The Turning Point 64 5
