James Dickey

Date of Award

2015

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Harvey, David

Keywords

Bavaria, Hungary, Soviet Republics, Russian Revolution, Politics

Area of Concentration

History

Abstract

This thesis examines the lives of the soviet republics briefly established in Bavaria and Hungary in 1919. It describes these regimes as products of the political wave produced by the Russian Revolution, albeit with crucial geographic and temporal differences. These differences ultimately resulted in the downfall of the Bavarian and Hungarian Soviet Republics where the Russian example had succeeded, despite the fact that both the Eastern and Central European revolutions had emerged from similar economic and political climates as the First World War drew to a close. By tracing the political roots of each regime as well as the resurgence of the right that they produced in Central Europe, this thesis hopes to shed light on the political climate that materialized in the interwar period and ultimately renewed the European conflict. An underwhelming amount of English-language scholarship currently exists on the Bavarian and Hungarian Soviet Republics, and through this thesis I hope to further the knowledge of the short-lived states in order to foster a greater understanding of Central Europe‟s political past. The analysis draws on both the available secondary literature as well as my own research undertaken at the Hoover Institution Archives.

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