Baranya. Történelmi közlemények 9-10. évfolyam (1996-1997)

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equipment and human resources of the Serb and Croatian minority education. The referent also enforced assimilation of the national minorities, as he puts it: „the natural procedure of assimilation into the Hungarians went well". Gábor DISZTL: The experiences of the introduction of the law about the education in the nationalities' languages, according to the notes of Ferenc Balázs The uniformed system is an important stage in the educational history of national minorities between the First and Second World Wars. Its basic idea is the education of multi-lingual citizens, which still exists in the schools of nationalities and bilingual schools. The author concludes that this system was effective and well-structured. It existed for only three years, because of the German-oriented policy of the government. The 1935 order was withdrawn in 1941, and the old "A-B-C" type system was back in use. The paper also illustrates how politics can influence people's everyday life. András ROZS: Middle class consciousness and gentry mindset. The intellectual world of the Turul Association in the 1920's-1930's, with a special attention to the comrade unions of Pécs After the First World War and the fall of the bourgeois democratic revolution, as a compensation for the defeat from the Western countries, a new political thinking developed under German influence, which rejected Anglo-Saxon liberalism and emphasized Christian morals and the union of the nation. A special type of organisation, based on these ideologies, were, the comrade unions, modelled on the German "Burschenschaften." These groups, organised in universities, formed a corporative body, empasizing unity, order, Christian and nationalistic ideology for the youth of the middle class. One of the most important of these was the Turul Association, which had many supporters in university cities, including Pécs during the 1920's and l°>30's. The study explores the components of the right wing radical ideology, on the basis of the drafts of the constitutions of these associations and articles published in the national and regional newsletter of the Turul Association. The author follows the historical change of the ideological notions of 'Christian' and 'national' during the given period through the activity of the local groups of Turul Associations.