A History of Modern Hungary: 1867-1994

by Hoensch, Jorg K.; Traynor, Kim

• ISBN13: 9780582256491
• ISBN10: 0582256496
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-01
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Table of Contents

List of Maps	vii	(2)
Abbreviations	ix	(1)
Pronunciation Guide	x	(3)
Preface	xiii	(4)
Preface to the Second Edition	xvii
1 HUNGARY UNDER THE HABSBURGS UP TO THE COMPROMISE OF 1867	1	(19)
The historical background up to the revolution of 1848-49	1	(9)
The failure of neo-absolutism, 1849-67	10	(6)
The content and significance of the Compromise	16	(4)
2 HUNGARY UNDER THE DUAL MONARCHY, 1867-1918	20	(65)
The political, social and intellectual background	20	(29)
The development of the political parties	20	(8)
Magyar nationalism and the failure of the nationalities policy	28	(8)
Social stratification and economic development	36	(7)
Religion, education and culture	43	(6)
The beginnings of national self-government under Andrassy and Tisza	49	(10)
The consolidation of internal politics	49	(5)
Hungary's influence on the foreign policy of the Habsburg Monarchy	54	(5)
The crisis of dualism and the loss of internal political stability	59	(19)
The effects of internal conflict on Hungary's relationship to the Empire	59	(9)
The organisation and struggles of the labour movement	68	(6)
Nationalities policy and foreign policy	74	(4)
The First World War and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire	78	(7)
3 HUNGARY BETWEEN THE WARS	85	(63)
The struggle for internal political stability and territorial integrity, 1918-20	85	(21)
From Karolyi's Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution to Kun's Soviet Republic	85	(13)
The `White Terror' and the Trianon Peace Treaty	98	(8)
The Horthy era	106	(42)
The successes and failures of the Bethlen government	106	(18)
The effects of the world economic crisis	124	(9)
Hungary and the Third Reich	133	(15)
4 HUNGARY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR	148	(15)
5 THE CREATION OF THE HUNGARIAN PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY, 1945-56	163	(61)
The political and economic background to the gradual Communist takeover, 1945-48	163	(26)
The personal dictatorship of Matyas Rakosi	189	(21)
The failure of the `New Course' and the popular Uprising of October 1956	210	(14)
6 HUNGARY UNDER KADAR	224	(55)
`He who is not against us, is with us'	224	(11)
Reform Hungarian style	235	(26)
The demise of `real existing socialism' in Hungary, 1980-87	261	(18)
7 THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY AND THE MARKET ECONOMY	279	(64)
The end of one-party government, 1988-89	279	(14)
The development of a democratic system	293	(16)
New political challenges	309	(26)
A despairing backwards somersault	335	(8)
Chronology	343	(13)
Select bibliography	356	(13)
Map	369	(2)
Index	371