War has become the organizing principle for society and this principle was above all others. Everything changed.
War has become the organizing principle for society and this principle was above all others. It restructured families, created and dissolved communities, overrode privileges or rules of the market. It was different from the peace times to its core. Instead of society’s rules, war goals serving the states’ will dominated people’s lives and days. The war reshaped burdens of providing for the family and created new forms of social solidarity, filling the often amorphous idea of the need for social justice with real experience.
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“I volunteered yesterday. Since then I have been happy.”
Béla Balázs, 1916
“Dinner is the ugliest extravagance of our country.”
Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the USA
“The economic organization of the war, the case of war supplies was a rather confused and complicated affair, offering many opportunities for infringements and for wheeling and dealing. Supplies were being delivered in such quantities that controls became almost impossible.”
Samu Stern
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The group of statues at the entrance commemorate the Hungarian hunters of the army. The Brother–in–Arms can be seen at the exit.
At the end of 19th century it seemed that the upcoming is going to be the most promising century in the history of mankind.
The way the big explosion took place, it included everything what used to be regarded as achievements before.
Women up until then were less credited partakers of history. In the 20th century they had become more and more equal players.
War has become the organizing principle for society and this principle was above all others. Everything changed.
In a war it is very important what feelings fighters feel in their soul. The hatred has become part of the emotional culture.
The most painful part of every war, people died. Behind the statistics , the numbers there are millions of individual destiny.
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A kommunista vezetőket bemutató adatbázisunk az 1989-ben megjelent Segédkönyv a politikai bizottság tanulmányozásához című kötet online változata.
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