A Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár évkönyve 18. 1991 (Debrecen, 1991)

Tanulmányok - Filep Tibor: Politikai restauráció és megtorlás Hajdú-Biharban (1956-1957)

MSZMP. The severity of retorsion can be illustrated by the facts that 517 citizens were summoned to'court and nearly 200 were relocated till the autumn of 1957. The restoration, which was still sliwer than in other parts of the country, was hampered by the leading communists’ struggles for power originating in the events in October. In the end former secretaries of the MDP were removed but were given important party or state functions in Budapest. In Debrecen the old and at the same time the new owner of the power became the party machinery following the mentality of Rákosi. The resistance and passivity of the intellectuals of Debrecen. The three universities had a decisive role in it, only a very few students and lecturers took political part in strengthening the new power. Though in the middle of 1957 the size of the membership of the MSZMP was only the 43—44% of that of the MDP the political restoration ended by the end of the year.

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