It is a bold, perhaps foolhardy venture, to launch a new ship in stormy waters, but the Hungarian Review is just that – a craft on the mainstream of the
Hungarians didn’t settle in wartime America “for the climate”, as Ferenc Molnár famously reminded other exiles in the Plaza Hotel, New York, in 1944. But is climate the reason why
HISTORICAL TIME, POLITICAL TIME History does not change every day. European history used to be divided into “ages” and “centuries”, but also into “reigns” and “regimes” – meaning the periods
Mark Weisbrot, a fervent critique of the IMF, the gendarme of the financial world, stood behind Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in this conflict with the Fund and the European Union
Hungary was a front runner in transition until the early 2000s thanks to the fact that the country had one of the highest per capita foreign investment levels in the
To tell the truth, I’ve never much liked Ajka. It was one of those small industrial towns I passed through on my way from the almost Tuscan beauty of the
NT: Why have previous Hungarian governments failed to deal with the Roma situation in Hungary and what can your government do differently? ZB: We have data on government activities towards the
I. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 1. Deep poverty should not be considered as a solely Roma problem. Of the nearly three quarter million people living in deep poverty in Hungary, only 250–300
I read in the New York Times of 8th September 2010 that President Obama opposes any extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy “adding a populist twist” to an election
The drive for historic change and development in Europe had set in motion in these countries forces of revolutionary spirit that pressed for freedom and human dignity, for national independence,
According to Marcel Proust, – perhaps this is the most exciting message of his work – there are extraordinary, magical moments of wonder in every lifetime, which interrupt the never-ending
“At the turn of the millennium political fundamentalism will proliferate everywhere in the world. This political fundamentalism could manifest itself not only in the Islamic world, but also in other
These last, however – and let us not fool ourselves – are not great in number; the political and social lives of so many people were unaffected. The greater portion
The director uses a multitude of early film clips, photographs, and interviews, adding thereby a new dimension and greater quality. He primarily uses the collection of the ethnographer Elemér Bakó.
Hungarian Painting 1830–1920Kogart Gallery Budapest MI: You were the curator of a recent exhibition entitled In the Current of Impressionism, Hungarian Painting 1830–1920, held at the Kogart Gallery in Budapest, April-August
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While we were still living in the cellar, where people bickered and were impatient and edgy, we were often told how truly rare it was for a mother and daughter
ÉVA FORGÁCS: Bauhaus (Bauhaus)2nd extended edition, Pécs, Jelenkor, 2010. 264 p.ISBN 978 963 676 489 0 An expert biography of the Bauhaus theory, which emphasized the unity of life and
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