Varga László - Lugosi András (szerk.): URBS. Magyar Várostörténeti Évkönyv XIV. - URBS 14. (Budapest, 2020)
Recenziók
Abstracts 317 tional state between 1919 and 1940 the square underwent a major change and between 1940 and 1944 in the four year of “homecoming” important changes happened in the opposite direction without having finished the transformation earlier. Later the Communist era had been governing the symbolism of the square for a long time. After 1989 in the post-Communist era the differences between the symbolic efforts can be tracked down also in the main square of Nagyvárad, too, but resulted no deep conflicts. The study gives a detailed analysis of the present-day situation of the square, the striving for modernisation, the public reception and how the inhabitants of the town think about it. Károly Ignácz Public place as a political battlefield The role of the street in the election campaigns in Budapest, 1920-1939 The study analyses the role and characteristics of one of the election battlefields, the public place during the elections in the capital in the interwar period. It shows how the ‘carnival’ feature of the earlier elections terminated after the new regulations (mass vote, secret ballot and voting by list) were introduced. Political posters and fliers were the most important means of street campaigns in that age. A detailed description is given when discussing the 1922 fierce election ‘poster war’. It was followed by authoritarian restrictions affecting the entire campaign during Bethlen’s consolidation, when posters and fliers with pictures were banned and the ones with text could appear only in an announcement form. Lastly, the infringement of the regulations is analysed, how the Social Democrats violated the election process during the 1939 election based on the available records of lawsuits. It turns out that the left-wing opposition party presumably tried to counteract the campaign restrictions, that have been even stronger than they used to be, and the uneven election battle with deliberate election process violation. Zsuzsanna Fazekas Forming the Socialist festive place in Budapest in the 1950s After World War II in Hungary during the time of the growing Rákosi regime the new power elite tried to occupy the urban places with various methods. Occupation meant both in the literal and in the symbolic senses, forming urban places, the purpose of which was to transform Budapest as a Socialist city, where urban places serve the special needs of the new regime. The example of Budapest, which was being rebuilt after the destruction of WWII, shows that with monuments, renaming public places and creating Socialist urban places
