Acta Papensia 2005 - A Pápai Református Gyűjtemények Közleményei 5. évfolyam (Pápa, 2005)
3-4. szám - Műhely - Kirsch Attila: Sokorópátkai Szabó István politikai tevékenysége 1919–1931
Műhely Summary ATTIIA KIRSCH István Sokorópátkai Szabó's political Activity after 1919 Due to a special historical period after World War I. István Sokorópátkai Szabó (1878-1938), a politician of the Smallholders' Party, played a rather important role in Hungarian politics. His public activity first focused on his home village, Sokorópátka, then it attained a regional and finally a national level. As a young man he was a village representative, then he became a village judge. From 1910 he worked as a representative at the Assembly of Győr County. Due to his anticommunist views he was arrested and sentenced to death during the proletarian dilatory in 1919, but he luckily got out of prison. He promoted the modernization of Hungarian agriculture and the rise of smallholders as a minister for smallholder affairs in 1919-1920 and from 1920 to 1931 as a Member of Parliament. He supported the agricultural reform, the improvement of farmers' working conditions, the vocational training of agricultural labourers and the admission of talented youth coming from the peasantry to universities. The essay explores his public activity after 1919. The research also makes it clear that on the basis of his political activity his wife and his son were treated as class enemies and persecuted after 1948, during the communist system. Acta Papensia V (2005) 3-4. 267
