ABSTRACT
Romanian troops entered Budapest on August and remained until November, when Admiral Horthy arrived on horseback to announce the establishment of a Christian and national counter-revolution. This chapter considers right-wing visions of revolution in which a corrupted Budapest is subjected to some form of purifying violence, be that verbal or political. The problem dramatized by Kalman Harsanyi, Dezso Szabo and Cecile Tormay was the location of the modern metropolis and the national capital city in the urban place. In all texts Budapest, the political, economic and intellectual centre of the nation, had been judaized; its redemption was to be found in verbal or political violence. Since the metropolis also functioned as the capital, the locus of power and revolution, conquest of the city was also a blueprint for national redemption. After Trianon, resentment, antisemitism and belief in Hungarian supremacy no longer posed a threat to internal stability of the Dual Monarchy and, given free rein, peaked in the early 1920s.
