The farmstead and the dismantling of farmsteads in propaganda

Abstract

In 1949, the communist state party established the Tanyai Tanács (Tanya Council). Its purpose was to eliminate the isolated small farms of the Great Hungarian Plain, the so-called tanyas. In their place, the government aimed to build kolkhoz-settlements, urban-like „socialist villages.” The project was accompanied by extensive propaganda, which, on the one hand, sought to „educate” the rural peasant population living on the tanyas, and on the other, to promote the modernization of the country through the example of transforming the Great Plain.