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Article: Under the sign of the pendulum: childhood experience as determining revolutionary consciousness. Ilona Duczynska Polanyi (1897-1978) (1).(Critical essay)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- September 22, 2006
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"It was a powerful experience, not something that could be had from books." (Ilona Duczynska)
The brief autobiography "Early Morning," which Ilona Duczynska Polanyi (1897-1978) composed late in life, (2) was designed principally to show how her innate rebelliousness was nurtured within the family, took on political connotations during her youth, and culminated under the impact of the March 1917 Russian Revolution in revolutionary consciousness that led to her political activism. Her actions at that time and subsequently caused a leading Hungarian historian to describe her as one of his country's outstanding revolutionary personalities. (3) Taking a wider view, E. ...