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Following World War II, Hungary fell under the infuence and surveillance of the Soviet Union. Tis resulted in the Hungarian Workers' Party assuming complete control over the nation. Afer the defeat of the 1956 Revolution, the ruling party re-formed as the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, and afer a few years of preparatory work, it composed its Roma policy of forced assimilation. Tis study presents the Roma policy of the single party state as carried out in the county of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén. Tis county had the largest Roma population and was simultaneously designated for major socialist industrialisation and social engineering. Following the transition to democracy in 1989/90, numerous sociological and anthropological studies were conducted in the region, and this location remains highly emphasised in Hungarian social sciences. In presenting the nationwide Roma policy, I have used my source publication, while in examining policy execution in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, I have relied on the county archives.
Keywords: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, Roma policy, forced assimilation, county policy execution, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County.
Po drugi svetovni vojni je Madžarska padla pod vpliv in nadzor Sovjetske zveze, s tem pa je popolno oblast nad državo prevzela Madžarska delavska stranka. Po porazu revolucije leta 1956 se je vladajoča stranka ponovno vzpostavila kot Madžarska socialistična delavska stranka in po nekaj letih pripravljalnih del oblikovala politiko prisilne asimilacije Romov. Namen članka je predstaviti politiko do Romov, ki jo je enopartijska država izvajala v županiji Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén. Županija, ki je beležila največje število romskega prebivalstva, je bila hkrati deležna tudi konkretne socialistične industrializacije in socialnega inženiringa. Po demokratični tranziciji v letih 1989/90 so bile v regiji opravljene številne sociološke in antropološke študije, območje pa se še vedno pogosto omenja v madžarskih družboslovnih znanostih. Predstavitev politike do Romov na državni ravni temelji na avtorjevi izvirni publikaciji, podatki o izvajanju politike v županiji Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén pa so pridobljeni iz županijskih arhivov.
Ključne besede: Madžarska socialistična delavska stranka, romska politika, prisilna asimi-lacija, izvajanje županijske politike, županija Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén.
1. Introduction and Methodology
In my study, I aimed to explore the implementation of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party's Gypsy policy in Borsod-Abuj-Zemplen county (BAZ county for short) in the second half of the 20th century At the same time, I tried to examine the impact of the socialist-era Gypsy policy on the Gypsy...