Bács-Kiskun megye múltjából 25. (Kecskemét, 2011)

SUMMARIES

administration. It tries to summarize the most bustling periods of the administration history: from the dualistic Hungary’s municipal law 1886 to the elections of People’s Republic of Hungary in 1950.

It describes the internal political conditions of a village among circumstances changing steadily, as well as the procedures in the social background and the determinative events.

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Jó

zsef Gyenesei

EFFORTS MADE TO REFORM THE MUNICIPAL RIGHT OF VOTING IN THE 1920’S

Instead of a modern civil administration after the Compromise of 1867 a need of a reforming system was established that remained unchanged during the dualistic era. After World War I and the revolutions the former structure of the administration was reconstructed on the basis of the principle of right’s continuity. Owing to this arrangement the Horthy-era inherited the unsolved problems of the administration of the dualistic era, as well.

This can be the explanation for the serial administrative efforts of the 1920s of which most important parts were the concepts about the self-governing corporations and the changing of the municipal right of voting.

Ágota Tánczos-Szabó

ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN IN KALOCSA IN 1945

Among the documents of Kalocsa Town’s public law there is a case record of a local incident that happened during the electian period in 1945. According to the documents the local management of the Smallholders’ Party was almost lynched in the Árpád Printing-House of the town in the night before the election. The indictment of the prosecution says the reason of the act was the conflict between the organisations of Hungarian Communists’and Smallholders’ Party of Kalocsa that became deeper during the electoral campaign. On the basis of this trial the study would like to explore the power relations among the different parties of Kalocsa in 1945. It also examines the Hungarian Communists’ Party’s way of becoming more and more significant in the town, as well as its aggravative connection with the Smallholders’Party.

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