13032 Praeger Publishers New York, NY, U.S.A. 1972 Dust Jacket Good Hard Cover Very Good Blue treated cloth on boards. Volume has minor wear, with some fading to the top front cover. Jacket has a flap tear at the head of the spine, light wear to other edges. Now in clear cover. "Hungary has always been a country of paradox. In his penetrating account of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Hungary Paul Ignotus describes the War for Freedom of 1848-49, the Reform Generation of Poets and thinkers in the 1830s. The social advancement of the last fifty years of the Habsburg Empire; the Second Reform Generation of the early 1900s. Horthy's government presided over a mixture of pre-Fascist brutality and quasi-democratic latitude as Hungary slid into the Nazi orbit and then became in the post-war, Communist. The turmoil in the Writers Union during 1953-1957 that triggered off the Revolution of 1956 when Hungarian bravery again caught world attention. Paul Ignotus gives a vivid account of the nightmare of Stalinist Hungary, when Rakosi's cruelty embarrassed even the Kremlin. His evaluation of post-1956 developments shows that Kadar, through prudence and compromise, has achieved for Hungary a place in the Soviet Bloc $18.00USD
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