Backyard Revolution: Mass Violence, Antisemitism, and the Populist State in Post-World War II Hungary

by Péter Apor

Backyard Revolution contributes in-depth sociocultural histories of the popular antisemitic pogroms that shook Hungary in the spring and summer of 1946. Expanding the scope of investigation of serial mass violence toward Jewish communities beyond the cases in Poland suggests that antisemitic violence was general in postwar Central and Eastern Europe and that it spoke to central components of popular notions of society and politics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501779885
• ISBN13: 9781501779886
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages