Hungary
Norman Stone
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Beschreibung
The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the nineteenth century and the first wars of independence.
Hungary's history since 1918 has not been a happy one. Economic collapse and hyperinflation in the post-war years led to fascist dictatorships and then Nazi occupation. Optimism at the end of the Second World War ended when the Iron Curtain descended, and Soviet tanks crushed the last hopes for independence in 1956 along with the peaceful protests in Budapest. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, consistent economic growth has remained elusive.
This is an extraordinary history - unique yet also representative of both the post-Soviet bloc and of nations forged from the fall of empires.
Rezensionen
<p>Praise for <i>Turkey: A Short History</i>:<br>Arresting ... authoritative and measured ... Stone'
One of the outstanding historians of our age
A vivid, provocative, often funny, always insightful account of how modern Turkey came about
There is never a dull page ... Stone'
Stunning ... no one else writes history quite like he does
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