Category: VOLUME IX, No. 6

REMEMBRANCE, ALL SOULS AND HEROES – EDITORIAL NOTE

“Memory and culture are therefore the key themes running through this issue. We wrote in the previous Review that we would restore the balance between the cultural and the purely political in later issues. It is neither possible nor desirable, of course, to omit the purely political in any review

WHAT IF?

“The European Parliament has decided, Hungary has been referred to Council under Article 7 of the TEU and the left is celebrating. We can leave to one side the questions over the voting procedure, given that politically the weight of the voting is what counts. The joy unconfined on the

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

A RECKONING OF ACCOUNTS – THOUGHTS ON PÉTER ÁKOS BOD’S BOOK

A Reckoning of accounts* Thoughts on Péter Ákos Bod’s Book Péter Ákos Bod is undoubtedly one of the most diligent economists working in Hungary today. During a career of more than four decades to date, not once has he missed an opportunity – or the self-imposed duty – to share his thoughts, feelings, observations and suggestions