 | Hungary since 1945 Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Central Asian Russian & Eastern European Studies; European Politics; History; European Union Politics; European History; Contemporary History 1945-; The Cold War; Eastern European Politics; European Union Expansion; European Union History; Lying on the political fault line between East and West for the past seventy-five years, the significance of Hungary in geopolitical terms has far outweighed the modest size of its population. This book charts the main events of these tumultuous decades including the 1956 Uprising, the end of Hungarian communism, entry into the European Union and the rise to power of Viktor Orbán and the national-conservative ruling party Fidesz. Árpád von Klimó is at the Catholic University of America and has carried out extensive research in different fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history, mostly on Hungary, Italy and Germany. |
