03460cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000580012624500260018426400510021030000470026133600260030833700260033433800360036050000310039650802040042752020670063153400570269865300610275565300330281665300550284965300270290470000480293185600760297985600430305578696UtSlPG20260610134827.0mcr n260607r20261923utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a23010323  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aDB1 aStreet, Cecil J. C.q(Cecil John Charles),d1884-196410aHungary and Democracy 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-05-16  aCarla Foust, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)  a"Hungary and Democracy" by Cecil J. C. Street is a historical and political study written in the early 20th century. It examines the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, challenges Magyar claims to democratic tradition, and weighs self-determination against Hungary’s pre-war treatment of its non‑Magyar peoples. The work argues that Hungary’s system was oligarchic and that partition largely reflected the aspirations of subject nationalities.

The opening of the book frames the region as a potential flashpoint, with a foreword warning that reaction in Hungary and disputed minorities could provoke new conflicts. The introduction sets the aim: to test Magyar propaganda that portrays Hungary as democratic and unjustly dismembered, countering it with press evidence from the war, a review of minority treatment, and a plan to compare conditions before and after the treaties. The first chapter sketches post‑1867 Hungary: Magyars ruling as a minority, the unenforced 1868 Nationalities Law, a highly restrictive franchise, and an education policy (notably under Apponyi) designed to Magyarise schools and even kindergartens, all within an oligarchic order hostile to Slavs and aligned with Germany. The second chapter details how census methods and schooling served assimilation, the closure of Slovak institutions, the use of infant schools for language policy, tight Hungarian control over Croatia‑Slavonia, and repression of Rumanians in Transylvania, set against a brief history of rising Magyar chauvinism and the injustices of Dualism. The third chapter begins by listing laws that made Magyar the dominant official language and then shows how county councils and parliament were engineered—through property‑weighted local bodies, jerrymandering, open voting, police and military pressure, and prosecutions—to exclude non‑Magyar representation. Overall, the opening establishes a documented case that pre‑war Hungary was neither democratic nor equitable to its national minorities. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923  aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Territorial questions -- Hungary  aHungarians -- Czechoslovakia  aHungary -- Politics and government -- 20th century  aHungary -- Nationality1 aO'Connor, T. P.q(Thomas Power),d1848-19294 uhttps://archive.org/details/hungarydemocracy00streuoft/page/n5/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78696