Hungary
Subtitle: The Art of Survival
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781350186699
Subjects: Europe, history
Description: "Hungary was the first Soviet satellite state to be invaded by Soviet troops. Janos Kadar, its Party leader for 32 years, took office in 1956 at the head of a government determinedly submissive to Moscow. Hungarians thought he had sold out. Yet over the next quarter century, Kadar quietly extended the limits of Soviet tolerance by gradualist reforms. He did not rock the Moscow boat, Paul Lendvai argues, but within the constraints of loyalty to the Warsaw Pact and to Moscow's supremacy, he proceeded to improve the quality of Hungarian life. Just how this happened is the subject of this book."--