Társadalomtörténeti múdszerek és forrástípusok. Salgótarján, 1986. szeptember 28-30. - Rendi társadalom, polgári társadalom 1. - Adatok, források és tanulmányok a Nógrád Megyei Levéltárból 15. (Salgótarján, 1987)
Angol nyelvi összefoglalók (English Summaries)
567 life of the gentry family and the literary works revealed mainly its seamy side. Because the gentry played quite important political role in the Hungarian political life during the interwar period, it merits the deeper investigation about its stratification and its social and political responsibilities as the leading officers of the local and regional administrations in the Hungarian countryside. Although the county-district was not the self-governing unit in the system of the Hungarian executive power and the chief administrative officer of the county-district was subordinated to the county 1 its rank was still more or less correspond to the social position of the gentry in the Hungarian hierarchy. The chief administrative officer of the county-district as one of the officer of the county in practice was the chief representative of the executive power of the state. It follows from it that the gentry as the chief administrative officer of the county-district and one of the most influential strata of the Hungarian society played the important role in the conservation of the political system. Miklós Kállay, the chief executive officer of Szabolcs County (as called " főispán " in Hungarian), later the undersecretary of state and the premier minister, frequently appeared in the pages of Pál Olchváry's diary. Besides the author of the diary, Miklós Kállay is one of the typical figures of the gentry in the diary. As Pál Olchváry wrote: " They (the Kállays) have two cars but the tremendous debt, too. Therefore the banks leased out their landed estates ". The embarrassing financial situation of Miklós Kállay may have forced him to seek the way out in his political career in Budapest. Pál Olchváry's diary represents the bottom-view of the high politics in the era of the political consolidation of the Horthy-regime. For example, Olchváry still questioned at the beginning of the 1920's whether Tibor Kállay, the Minister of Finance and bankrupt landowner was capable of driving the nation out of the economic crisis. He did not like the wife of Miklós Kállay as well because she hated the radio; as he wrote, " but such a miraculous thing is unable to compel the admiration of a Kállay. I can not tolerate such a bumptious peopFinally, Dr. Gyarmathy indicates the methodological aspects of his research. The diaries are one of the most remarkable sources of social history. By virtue of being written parallel with the events, the diaries give a reliable account of the mentality, manners, custom and thinking of the different strata of the Hungarian society during the interwar period. JÓZSEF ZACHAR : The Hungarian Hussars in Eighteenth-century,French Army The author in his essay gives an account of the emergence of the Hungarian light cavalry in the French Army. The Hungarian soldiers have begun to appear in greater strength in France since the decline of Thököly's uprising. Baron Croneberg was the first who drafted the Hungarian deserters into the army. Two squadrons, fifty and fifty hussars respectively, were organized in the Italian seat of war in 1702. Francis II. Rákóczi, the " ruling prince " of Rákóczi's uprising, called upon the Hungarian soldiers of the Austrian armies to stand at the service of the king of France in 1704. The Versailles Hussars, a cavalry regiment, was established on the 6th of November 1705. Mainly Hungarian Hussars served in the five squadrons of the Versailles Hussars. The second Hussar
