"Peidl's Intermezzo" - a Thwarted Attempt to Revert to the People's Republic after 133 Days of Sándor Garbai's Hungarian Socialist-Communist Government (August 1919)
Abstract
The study comments on internal policy of the monochromatic social-democratic Trade Union Cabinet of Gyula Peidl, which was in power for a mere six days, from the 1st to the 6th August 1919. It maps principles of legislative steps performed by the third standard post-war Budapest civil cabinet.
It elaborates on the nature of the regime's transformation and examines the likelihood of Hungary ruled by Gyula Peidl and right-wing centric social democrats, who were "discredited" by their participation in the Hungarian Soviet Republic, to reassume Károlyi's era and restore a civil democratic society in line with a political course of the "chrysanthemum" republic. Legislative steps taken by Gyula's government document that alteration of the Bolshevik regime performed by the centrist right-wing social democrats truly restored fundamentals of civil democratic principles founded by Károlyi's people's republic and pursued the pre-31st March 1919 period.
In August 1919, however, Hungary was unable to accomplish permanent restoration of civil democratic principles based on western democracies.