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History in my life : a memoir of three eras / Ivan T. Berend.
LIBRA DB955.6.B46 A3 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berend, T. Iván (Tibor Iván), 1930-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Berend, T. Iván (Tibor Iván), 1930-.
- Berend, T. Iván.
- Intellectuals--Hungary--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Immigrants.
- Socialism.
- Hungary.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Central Europe.
- Socialism--Europe, Eastern.
- Eastern Europe.
- Socialism--Europe, Central.
- Immigrants--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Berend, a professor of European studies at UCLA who survived five regime changes and two revolutions in Hungary, a Hungarian prison, and a German concentration camp, recounts his life from his childhood in Budapest in the 1930s to his move to America. He describes his experiences as Hungary became an ally of Hitler and established a Nazi system, its brief period of democracy, Soviet occupation and the communist regime, and the new democracy, for Western readers who have an oversimplified view of the Cold War. He also traces his education, travels, and career as a historian. There is no index. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction and acknowledgement
- My family in Budapest in the 1930s
- With my mother, father and brother Ervin in 1935
- The end of childhood
- Dachau
- and the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft's conference in Munich
- The Gebirgsjägerschule in Mittenwald
- Where is my home?
- The 1956 revolution in my life
- My universities
- A widening world, learning by traveling
- In the international community of historians : friends all over the world
- Experiencing and writing history : a special friend, books and debates
- Teaching in two different university systems
- My globalized family
- In the establishment
- In the storm of the regime change
- Leaving Hungary for Los Angeles
- America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789639776487
- 9639776483
- OCLC:
- 326670116
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