Painting the Town Red: Politics and the Arts During the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic

by Bob Dent

Book Overview

The intensely political cultural production that erupted during Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919 encompassed music, art, literature, film and theatre. Painting the Town Red is the little-known history of these developments.' 'The book opens with an overview of the political context in Hungary after the First World War and how the Soviet Republic emerged in the chaotic months which followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745337775
• ISBN13: 9780745337777
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"