Somogy megye múltjából - Levéltári évkönyv 29. (Kaposvár, 1998)
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represent the everyday life of the occupation by publishing a report on public circumstances in Southem-Somogy. The report was written by Gönczi Ferenc, a former school inspector. The survey examines the events in Somogy County in regard with the history of everyday life and diplomacy. The school inspector’s report completed with notes is a valuable addition to the examination of the ideology and mentality of the elite-class in the county after Trianon. Szita László'. School and education of the Croatian nationality between the two World Wars. In the introduction of the study the author gives a list of the southern Slavic rapporteurs to the prime minister. To evaluate the sources issued in his study he briefly goes through the population-history of the Croatian ethnic group by the River Drava. After this, Szita goes on to write about the schooling of these villages. At the end of the study the author publishes letters, reports and statements of nationality-history found during his research in the Prime Ministerial Archives of the National Archives that contain excellent data referring not only to the national conditions but to the social relations of the Croatians by the River Drava and, first and foremost, to their education and schooling affairs as well. Szántó László: The battle of parties to win political power. Elections in Somogy County between 1945 and 1947 (Second report) The battles of party-politics related to the parliamentary elections in 1947 are in the center of the second part of the survey. The leadership of the Hungarian Communist Party (HCP) in order to win the elections used every means to disrupt the huge base of the Independent Smallholders’ Party in Somogy County. They weakened the smallholders’ political influence with continuous liar propagandas and with the administrative means of the interior police power. The leaders of Smallholders’ Party in Somogy could not effectively oppose the dictatorial movements of the Communists thus most of their supporters hoped their business federation, the protection of democracy and civilian order from the civilian left. The results of the elections in Somogy on August 31st expressed this new political state since the biggest left, the Democrat Party gained the one—third of the polls, while the Smallholders’ Party lost nearly the fourth-fifth of its previous voters. The communists won in the whole country but in the agricultural Somogy they came up only in the third place. The conclusion of the results of the survey is that the HCP’s victory in 1947 - with Soviet support! - was due to its battle that it fought with its single-minded, determined and inconsiderate means. Bertalan Péter: The church politics of the Kádár-government in Somogy County (parallel with the sources of the cartulary) (1957-1959) Several memoirs, scientific issues and collections of documents give and accurate picture of the church politics of the Kádár-government. This survey examines the three years after the revolution in 1956 based on archive-sources that 390
