The Luxemburgist Apologetics of the Hungarian Soviet Republic

The Forgotten Revolution was published in 2022 by Black Rose Books, and its editor was András B. Göllner, Canadian-Hungarian professor emeritus of the Montreal-based Concordia University. The book’s most important statement is that the activity of the worker’s councils in 1919 was an exemplary aspect of the history of the Hungarian Republic of Councils. „The Hungarian Communists’ concept of the Party was more Luxemburgian than Leninist” – quotes Göllner Péter Kende affirmatively. The book draws a large-scale narrative about the entirety of the modern Hungarian history, in a way that its highpoints are claimed to be the years 1919 and 1956 – both attempts of the proletariat to achieve self-management. The recension aims to introduce the book to the Hungarian public and evaluate the success rate of this venture.