Project Gutenberg 2025-04-07 Public domain in the USA. 304 Tormay, Cécile 1876 1937 Tormay, Cecile Tormay, Cecil An outlaw's diary: the Commune $aLondon :$bPhilip Allan & Co., $c1923. Richard Tonsing, Tim Lindell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "An Outlaw's Diary: The Commune" by Cécile Tormay is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book chronicles personal experiences during the Hungarian Soviet Republic, focusing on the social and political upheavals following the First World War. Its main topic is the swift and dramatic transformation of Hungary into a Soviet Republic under Béla Kun, told from the perspective of an upper-class Hungarian woman facing persecution and exile. Through firsthand observation, Tormay provides a vivid depiction of fear, uncertainty, and the collapse of her social order. The opening of the book immediately plunges the reader into the tense and tumultuous atmosphere of Budapest during the night of the Communist coup in March, as chaos erupts in the streets and the protagonist faces imminent danger. The narrator, together with her family, navigates fear, confusion, and hurried preparations for escape as Bolshevik forces take control. The subsequent days describe the swift imposition of Communist rule, the spread of propaganda, personal separation from loved ones, and a desperate flight from the city. Through diary entries, Tormay conveys the emotional impact of revolution—loss, anxiety, and the search for hope—while observing ordinary and aristocratic life disrupted by new authorities, confiscations, propaganda, and violence. This beginning establishes an atmosphere of uncertainty, sorrow, and adaptation, promising a detailed and personal exploration of survival under a regime change. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/outlawsdiary02tormuoft/page/n7 20190110061901tormay 1923 GB Reading ease score: 72.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Tormay, Cécile, 1876-1937 -- Diaries Communism -- Hungary Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1918-1919 -- Personal narratives DB Text Category: Biographies Category: History - Other Category: History - European Category: History - Modern (1750+) 647697 2025-09-30T05:11:48.946190 text/html 620277 2025-04-07T13:33:05 text/html 7525577 2025-09-30T05:11:58.740133 application/epub+zip 7523856 2025-09-30T05:11:51.428171 application/epub+zip 394346 2025-09-30T05:11:50.008175 application/epub+zip 7714895 2025-09-30T05:12:04.164143 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 7680112 2025-09-30T05:11:57.644169 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 574261 2025-09-30T05:11:47.608203 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 554321 2025-04-07T13:33:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17501 2025-09-30T05:12:04.310118 application/rdf+xml 12612 2025-09-30T05:11:50.277172 image/jpeg 2354 2025-09-30T05:11:50.141206 image/jpeg 7679805 2025-09-30T05:11:49.124221 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia hu.wikipedia