The research focuses on the achievements of the Hungarian state between 1918 and 1921 specifically discussing the preparation for the treaty, the extent of economic downfall, social crisis, refugees, the army and paramilitary violence, the role of the Soviet Republic of Hungary and the wave of refugees. We expect that at the end of the research we will be able to make new statements about the integration and composition of refugees, going beyond Istvan Mocsy’s results published in 1983, and we will be able to see the problem of the army more clearly (what were the scope of resistance, alternatives etc.) Amid economic collapse, need for fuel, procurement and distribution of foodstuff, prices and circulation of goods were mechanisms that also determined power politics. The counter-revolutionary regime found solutions that proved more efficient from its own point of view than those of the Soviet Republic of Hungary or the Károlyi-regime, and this is why stabilisation was possible. It is worth examining whether the Hungarian state managed scarcity or health crisis, especially the Spanish flu compared to Vienna or Prague. Team members responsible for this section: Zsombor Bódy (Centre for Humanities, Péter Pázmány Catholic University, public provision, social affairs), Tamás Révész (army), Gergely István Szűts (refugees, Hungarian National Archives, Veszprém County Archives).