Chess game for democracy : Hungary between East and West, 1944-1947 / Mária Palasik ; [translated by Mario Fenyo].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palasik, Mária.

Contributor:

Fenyo, Mario D.

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Hungary--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Hungary.

Politics and government.

Hungary--History--1945-1989.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 230 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2011]

Summary:

In the turbulent years between 1914 and 1947, Hungarian politics was marked by constant conflict between the two most powerful parties in the governing coalition the Independent Smallholder Party and the Communist Party The history of this struggle reads like a series of moves in a dramatic chess game, where no one could predict the outcome

Maria Palasik examines this ill-fated conflict to explain how it was possible for the parties to work together in a coalition government despite being constantly at odds Her reconstruction of the debates over the introduction of the law to protect the republic against conspiracy and the politics behind the Hungarian Brotherhood are grounded in her path breaking research in the archives of the state security agencies

Through the case study of a single country, Chess Game for Democracy makes a major contribution to ongoing debates on the origin's of the Cold War and the process of Sovietization in Central and Eastern Europe, improving our understanding of European history after the Second World War and the reasons behind changing relations between the superpowers. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Antecedents 3

2 The Transition Period: From War to Peace 8

3 Consolidation and Confrontation 47

4 The Takeover in the Coalition 101

5 Endgame in Hungary 136.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-219) and index.

ISBN:

9780773538498

0773538496

9780773538504

077353850X

OCLC:

693809713