Szeibert-Erdős András: Lovakról és vörösökről - egy különös kommunistaperes büntetőeljárás. In: Móra Akadémia : szakkollégiumi tanulmánykötet 13., (13). pp. 177-191. (2024)
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Abstract
Many low-ranking officials of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic stood trial after the fall of the short-lived Bolshevik experiment. They could have been indicted on a lot of possible charges. Whenever (and that was the case quite often) there was no strict „political crime” label for something that counter-revolutionary prosecution deemed a crime, common law offences were cited in indictments. The Soviet, as a whole, was declared illegitimate; therefore, by abiding its laws as a communard official, one could actually commit a crime under the 1878 criminal code, the „Code Csemegi” of Hungary. One such typical offence was extortion. Since the requisition of consumer goods and weapons were commonplace in the scarcity economy of the Soviet, many people were charged with extortion felonies and misdemeanours. János Gergely and his accomplices were no exception. These officials of Kispest town took part in requisitioning horses for the Red Army of Hungary, for which they were charged with ten counts of felony. They had no reason to hope for an acquittal, since the process had many witnesses, but the court had ruled that since the horses were used for the purpose of national defence, the actions of Gergely and the co-defendants were, if not justified, understandable. In this paper I am giving a brief necessary overview of the communist processes, since it is a short-lived and not very well-known institution of Hungarian law history. Afterwards I give a detailed analysis of the court verdict, with the aim of slicing the Gordian knot – how could an (as the Horthy era legal fiction went) illegitimate state establish a local horse requisitioning committee that was deemed legitimate? What is behind this glaring contradiction? How was it explained by the judges who have decided to acquit the defendants? Could this possibly point to any larger pattern in the communist processes?
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Other title: | Of horses and reds: a peculiar criminal case among the communist processes of Interwar Hungary |
| Heading title: | Irodalomtudomány |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Móra Akadémia : szakkollégiumi tanulmánykötet 13. |
| Date: | 2024 |
| Volume: | 13 |
| ISSN: | 2064-809X |
| Page Range: | pp. 177-191 |
| Series Name: | Móra Akadémia |
| Language: | Hungarian, English |
| Publisher: | Szegedi Tudományegyetem Móra Ferenc Szakkollégiuma |
| Place of Publication: | Szeged |
| Related URLs: | https://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/85203/ |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Büntetőper - Magyarország - 1919, Magyarország története - 1919 |
| Additional Information: | Bibliogr.: p. 188-191. és a lábjegyzetekben ; összefoglalás angol nyelven |
| Subjects: | 06. Humanities 06. Humanities > 06.01. History and archaeology |
| Date Deposited: | 2024. Jul. 29. 12:06 |
| Last Modified: | 2024. Jul. 29. 12:06 |
| URI: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/85215 |
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