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This volume consists of twenty studies on problems related to "transition to democracy" in central and eastern Europe during the decade following the collapse of communist states. The book focuses on preconditions and problems of transitions, case studies, patterns of performance and consolidation and inter-regional comparative aspects.

Dealing with the history and collapse of the Soviet empire, this work is an account of the atrocities committed behind the Iron Curtain. The book looks at the Ukraine, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia to give a picture of the suffering.

Kornai presents an assessment of Hungary's transition from a socialist to a market economy. In a comprehensive critique of socialist economy reform, Kornai explains how the system's ideological and political attributes deny the idea of "market socialism."

This book contains 19 studies by leading experts in the field of Hungarian political, cultural, economic, and literary history to honor Steven Bela Vardy, America's leading historiographer of Hungary and an internationally renowned scholar of Hungarian immigration studies.

In the aftermath of the Kosovo Crisis, it is said that Macedonia will be next. This volume provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of the Macedonian Question. The essays included illustrate the intimate connections between culture and ethnic politics in Macedonia

While most studies of the Holocaust stop in 1945, the year of the liberation and the official end of the Holocaust, Tamas Stark follows the fate of the Hungarian Jews until the Communist takeover in the late 1940s. The author goes on to cover the enlarged, war-years territory of Hungary, and then to a detailed comparison of the destruction of Jewish communities and the emigration of the survivors.

This collection of seminal studies sheds light on many controversial issues relating to the Holocaust in Hungary. The author, regarded as the world's leading authority on the catastrophe that befell Hungarian Jewry during the Nazi era, explores the factors that made the Hungarian chapter of the Holocaust unique.

Exploring how the early 1970s were years of crucial significance in the bipolar world which prevailed until the collapse of the Soviet Union, this volume reveals this period as a stage of the decomposition of the Soviet empire.

There are many established theories concerning political quiescence and dissent in Soviet-era eastern Europe. This book--drawing on newly accessible archival data and over one hundred interviews conducted with communists, dissidents, and by-standers in Poland and East Germany--challenges them.

This text examines President Woodrow Wilson's policies regarding the future of the Danubian basin. It reveals that American attitudes and policies toward Hungarian participation in the Dual Monarchy were influenced by propaganda, the domestic American press and the demands of diplomacy.

MacKenzie deals in general terms with the historical relationship of the two groups and describes the roles of four important Serbian leaders who contributed to Yugoslav unification and national development before the second World War.

The selections represent many generations of poets, from Veronica Micle and Matilda Cugler-Poni in the nineteenth century, to Magda Isanos and the interwar poets, to such important contemporary poets as Ana Blandiana and Daniela Crasnaru, and younger poets, such as Carmen Firan and Carmen Veronica Steiciuc

Low is the first historian to focus on the links between earlier post-war German judgments and those of the 1980s, showing that recent revisionist arguments are strikingly similar to older views by extremist German nationalists, neoconservatives, and unrepentant Nazis.

This collection of essays traces the roots of right-wing politics in pre-communistic Eastern Europe and examines right-wing tendencies following the break-up of the communist regimes. The common elements of nationalism, xenophobia and ethnic and religious intolerance are scrutinized.

Describes how the politics and culture of the American colonies - later the United States - had a crucial impact on Hungarian thought, deeply influencing the outcome of the Hungarian Age of Reform.

The second of a three-volume collection of studies focusing on Joseph Conrad's Polish roots and his contributions as a British writer.

This book examines the convoluted relations between a victor state (Yugoslavia) and a defeated one (Hungary) during the first decade after the end of World War I. The work is based mainly on archival sources and demonstrates that great power interests in the region influenced considerably the bilateral relations between Hungary and Yugoslavia