“No less importantly, our next-door neighbours—Slovaks, Ukrainians, Romanians, Serbians, Croatians, Slovenes, and Austrians—have shared a common fate with us here in the Central European region for a thousand years, even
“… the Union has no other choice and it does not have any future unless it includes and cherishes the various histories, traditions, and identities of Europe’s constituent nations. Brexit
“‘The great discovery of ideology has been that modern civilization, beneath its cleverly contrived appearances, is the most systematically oppressive despotism the world has ever known … Only in modern
‘Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles’ – Ambrose Bierce ‘God is dead’ – Nietzsche ‘Nietzsche is dead’ – God (Graffiti on a wall in Vienna,
Hungary was not a colonial power, so the ‘overseas sciences’ never really emerged in our country two centuries ago, with only a few notable researchers developing an interest and attachment
Winston Churchill had no doubts about the importance of studying history: ‘In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.’ This includes its subset, leadership in war. Great war leaders, as
“But obligations are reciprocal. Those who gained at Trianon have obligations as well. Their obligation is to shape countries with an absolute minimum of injustice so that they can ask
“The extremely influential pan-Slavic movement and the idea of dismantling Austria–Hungary emerged in Cleveland and Pittsburgh after a long period of Germanization in the nineteenth century, while the quasi-declaration of
On my bookshelves there are already two copies of Lost Prestige: the 1986 edition, a little blue book, which back then was a real eye-opener for an MA student in
In the past thirty years, the concept of nation has been redefined in Central and Eastern, as well as in Western Europe. In Central and Eastern Europe, the nation was
“The political police reproduced and duplicated the acquired films, negatives, paper prints, and photographs from newspaper cuttings in various sizes, and compiled photo albums that they used to capture and
To transplant a juniper is a tricky business – often it perishes in the attempt’, considers the poet, enclosed by a little-world of enduring canopies brought forth from his own
The reader takes in hand, with this book, a collection of poems as rich and diverse in theme as they are in form, poems which call to life a chorus
VOICES FLOAT FROM BOUGH TO BOUGH Hangok szállnak ágról ágra In memory of Petrarch (1304–1374) In the dark depths of the dream, a man’s voice wakes me, full and clear.
ÁGNES BERETZKY is an associate professor at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. She received her MA in History, English, and Scandinavian Studies, and a PhD in
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