István Balogh and the agrarian reform

István Balogh (1894-1976) - as member of parliament and secretary of state in Prime Minister's Office - was powerful hungarian politician from 1944 to 1947. He was the rapporteur of agrarian reform's cases in the Political Committee of Provisional National Assembly (1945). In Summer 1945 every manors divided between smallholders and boors. The lordship top measure was 100 cadastral areas. But who demontsrably kept to antifascist activités in World War II, possessed maximum 300 cadastral areas. The Political Committee - within István Balogh - proceeded in these cases. In this study the author presents the political and economic problems of the hungarian agrarian reform on the basis contemporary documents - proceedings, reports - of the Political Committee (archived by National Archives of Hungary, Budapest)