Black Humor and the White Terror

This book examines political humour as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos and antisemitic violence in Hungary between 1918 and 1922.

Béla Bodó is Professor of Eastern European History at the University of Bonn, Germany. He is the author of The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921 (Routledge, 2019) and Tiszazug: Social History of a Murder Epidemic (Columbia University Press, 2002).