Hungary
Subtitle: between democracy and authoritarianism
By: Paul Lendvai ; translated by Keith Chester
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231703222; 9780231800921
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Democracy; Politicians; Ethnic relations; Post-communism; Authoritarianism; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A Funeral as the End and the Beginning; title: A Half-Hearted Change; title: József Antall : A Political Phenomenon; title: The Roots of Hungarian Anti-Semitism; title: Gyula Horn and the Return of the Post-Communists; title: The Young Comet : Viktor Orbán; title: The Medgyessy Puzzle or the End of a Deception; title: The Sense of Mission of an Easily Seducible Nation; title: The Splendour and Decline of Ferenc Gyurcsány; title: The Power of the Discreet Press Barons; title: Cold War at the Top : Orbán Versus Gyurcsány; title: The Roma and Jews : Targets of the Extreme Right; title: The Political Suicide of the Left; title: Orbán über Alles : Hungary at a Dead End.