Introduction; Chapter I We do not wish to move a finger; Chapter II The Myth of Democracy; Chapter III The Merchants of the Kremlin; Chapter IV The Communists Take Over Chapter V Empire by Coercion; Chapter VI Containment, Rollback,; Liberation or Inaction?; Conclusion; Index
Laszlo Borhi is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
"This monograph is a study of Hungary's political and economic
history during the first decade of Soviet domination, which ended
in the revolution of 23 October 1956. László Borhi perceives this
era as bounded by acts of western perfidy... Borhi describes and
analyzes this period expertly and his book is a valuable addition
to Hungarian historiography."
*Slavic Review*
"Borhi opens the Hungarian archives for English readers and tells
from a Hungarian perspective the familiar stories of the end of
World War II, the imposition of the Soviet model on Eastern Europe,
and the explosion of 1956. Not only does this yield new detail that
considerably complicates the stark narrative of the Cold War years,
but it also puts motivations and events in a new light."
*Foreign Affairs*
"... a major contribution, as the author has explored very
thoroughly not only the Hungarian but also the US, Russian, and
French archives and nearly all the available sources... The main
focus is the beginning, the period immediately following World War
II... a good approach, for country studies based on cholarly
sources are still quite scarce. Borhi is the first scholar to have
provided a full, 360-degree picture of the ruinous consequences of
the Soviet occupation on the Hungarian economy... an illuminating
and insightful exploration of what Soviet rule in Eastern Europe
was really about."
*American Historical Review*
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