Csengeri Piroska - Tóth Arnold (szerk.): A Herman Ottó Múzeum évkönyve 54. (Miskolc, 2015)
Történettudomány - Hajnáczky Tamás: A Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megyei cigányság helyzete a szocialista korszakban a levéltári források tükrében
A Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megyei cigányság helyzete a szocialista korszakban... 495 THE SITUATION OF THE ROMAS IN BORSOD-ABAÚJ-ZEMPLÉN COUNTY IN THE LIGHT OF ARCHIVAL SOURCES FROM THE SOCIALIST ERA Keywords: roma politics, one-party state, roma, roma neighbourhood, habitat of reduced value On the request of the Hungarian Gypsy Cultural Alliance (MCKSz), the situation of the Roma population of Borsod- Abaúj-Zemplén county had already been addressed before the party decree of 1961. The party decree of 1961 determined the party state’s official Roma politics and its ideological commitment concerning the Roma population. Assignees were loyal to the contents of the party decree in the 1960s and 1970s, both on country-wide and on county-wide level. The party decree of 1979 did not oppose its forebear: it kept the 1961 decree’s essential resolutions, while approved modifications were reactions to recently emerged difficulties. Corresponding with state-wide tendencies, there was a moderate improvement in the position of the Roma population of the county in question by the end of the 1970s. At the same time, favourable advancements concerned only a limited segment of the Roma population, and the leadership of the county had to face numerous newly emerged difficulties concerning the future. Although several attempts were made in the county in the 1980s in order to thoroughly implement the goals of the 1979 party decree, the first signs of regression came to the fore in the position of the Roma population by the second half of the 1980s. [Translated by Agnes Drosztmér] Hajnác^ky, Tamás
