Hungary: History

This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture, and economy of Hungary from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the elections of 1988.

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This volume presents the ideas of the main actors of the political scene in the Hungarian Kingdom during the long 19th century (1790-1920). Organized around key political thinkers, this book considers the most significant paradigms of thought associated with the critical political events of the day.

"Another Hungary" tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals who came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Taken together, their stories create a unique picture of the troubled history of Eastern Europe, viewed from the small towns and villages.

A major re-examination of Habsburg decision-making from 1912 to July 1914, the study argues that Austria-Hungary and not Germany made the crucial decisions for war in the summer of 1914. Based on extensive new archival research, the book traces the gradual militarization of Austro-Hungarian foreign policy during the Balkan Wars. The disasters of those wars and the death of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand convinced the Habsburg elite that only a war against Serbia would end the South Slav threat to the monarchy's existence.

In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary, 35,000 of whom made their way to Canada. This would be the first time Canada would accept so many refugees of a single origin, setting a precedent for later refugee initiatives.