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Category: History

JUDSON’S HISTORY OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE

“An imperial EU, if it is to function, will necessarily be authoritarian, since there is as yet no demos that would provide the basis for a genuine pan-European democracy. A partial solution is supposedly offered by ‘subsidiarity’, a notion founded in Catholic doctrine, which accepts that some issues are best

HUNGARIAN TRANSYLVANIAN POETS – PART II

DOMOKOS SZILÁGYI  Domokos Szilágyi (1938–1976), poet, writer and translator, is considered an important figure in Transylvanian literature. He graduated from the Hungarian university of Kolozsvár with a degree in Hungarian Language and Literature in 1960. From that time until 1970, he worked as editor for periodicals in Kolozsvár and Bucharest

INVASION 1968 – THE INTENTIONS OF INTERVENTION AND THE SHADOW OF 1956 – PART I

“Through Kádár, therefore, Brezhnev was still attempting to make Dubcek the Kádár of 1968; a dynamic and popular Party head implicated in “excessive” reforms but nevertheless co-opted as the face of a Soviet-imposed ‘domestic’ alternative. This had clearly also been Brezhnev’s hope in his astonishing phone call with Dubcek on

PRAGUE REVISITED – PART I

“Historians have taken the 1618 Defenestration of Prague as marking the beginning of the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict that raged ferociously, mostly across Bohemia and other parts of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1618 to 1648, drawing in the armies of most of the European powers of the day.

COLONEL KOSZORÚS ‘HAS WRITTEN HIS LETTER’

Colonel Koszorús “Has Written His Letter”* The letter came from America at Christmas, 1962. It was addressed to Mrs Dr Sándor Czeglédy,1 née Aranka Molnár, the daughter of Aranka Koszorús, and was sent from Washington by Colonel Ferenc Koszorús to his niece at her Debrecen address. The letter was partly