Oliver Pejic

Oliver Pejic

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    I am a doctoral researcher in History at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and my research interests primarily concern the cultural and political history of Central and Southeastern Europe in the long nineteenth century and interwar periods. My previous … [Read more...] about Oliver Pejic

“Dangerous Riot” – Successful Street Protest in the Outskirts of Budapest during the First World War

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Károly Ignácz, October 12th 2020   Flour coupons have not been distributed in Erzsébetfalva for two weeks. The dissatisfaction of a population left without flour erupted in a dangerous riot this morning. Towards nine o’clock in the morning, four or five thousand people, mostly … [Read more...] about “Dangerous Riot” – Successful Street Protest in the Outskirts of Budapest during the First World War

Leavers and Remainers: The Self-Fashioning of a Hungarian Administrative Official Leaving Greater Romania

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Gábor Egry, September 15th 2020 On July 5, 1920, a month after the signing of the Trianon peace treaty, the newspaper Erdélyi Hírek announced that Sándor Antalffy had arrived in the city of Abony with his family. At that moment, Antalffy was a modestly known official, the … [Read more...] about Leavers and Remainers: The Self-Fashioning of a Hungarian Administrative Official Leaving Greater Romania