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Hungarian Women in Politics 1945-1951
by Andrea Peto
Based on extensive primary source material and oral history interviews,this book is the first comprehensive study of women´s political involvement in post-World War II Hungary.
It addresses the impact of the spread of communism and describes how some key
organizations, such as the Feminist Association, various Jewish women´s
societies, and the women´s section of the Social Democratic and Smallholders´
Party gradually ceased to exist and were replaced by a single communist-dominated
women´s organization. The book includes a case study of women who entered
the police force, a profession previously closed to them. A chapter is devoted
to the life stories of communist women activists appointed to key positions
after 1945.
ISBN: 0-88033-510-6. Columbia University Press, East European Monographs, 2003.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/088033/0880335106.HTM
Compiled by Andrea Peto