Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-p9bg8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T19:00:29.493Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Purge and Patronage: Kádár's Counter-revolution and the Field of Economic Research in Hungary, 1957–1958

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2002

György Péteri
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The article attempts a detailed analysis of the post-1956 purges in the field of economic research. It tries to identify and assess the role of patronage in protecting the field from lasting damage. Such damage was threatening in the form of both losing several young talents from the field as well as weakening the position of the empiricist research programme successfully launched in the immediate post-Stalin years of 1954–6. The analysis devotes great attention to the dialectical relationship between purge and patronage, that is, to the inevitability of certain senior communist patrons administering purges in order to be able to act as patrons.

Type
Research Article
Information
Contemporary European History , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 125 - 152
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press