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Army and Politics in Hungary, 1938-1944
This volume surveys Hungary's defense policies in the era of 1938-1945. It focuses on the gradual involvement of the country in Germany's war and the partial rectification of Hungary's borders as defined by the Trianon Peace Treaty. It concludes with Hungary's failure to join the Grand Alliance, resulting in subsequent German occupation and the removal of Regent Horthy.
Army and Politics in Hungary, 1938-1944
This volume surveys Hungary's defense policies in the era of 1938-1945. It focuses on the gradual involvement of the country in Germany's war and the partial rectification of Hungary's borders as defined by the Trianon Peace Treaty. It concludes with Hungary's failure to join the Grand Alliance, resulting in subsequent German occupation and the removal of Regent Horthy.
From Emancipation to Catastrophe
The first chapter discusses the "Jewish question" in Hungary and the rise of antisemitism in the 19th-early 20th centuries; the rest of the book deals with the period 1919-45. Hungary was the first European country after World War I to introduce antisemitic laws (in 1920). However, the Jews maintained their patriotism. Although he was an antisemite, Horthy was favorably inclined toward the assimilated and "useful" Budapest Jews. Discusses the anti-Jewish legislation in 1938-41, military labor service, and the deportations in 1944. Dwells on the behavior of Jewish leaders, particularly the Zsido Tanacs (Jewish Council) instituted in 1944. The leaders' failure to warn the Jews of the impending...
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Reform and Revolution
András Gergely focuses on the program, motives, and social background of the Hungarian reform movement, which formed around the nobility of the 1830s. After 1841, the political scene in Hungary became more complex with the rise of the political press and the widening of public opinion. Both the reformers' and conservatives' camps split. However, the 1848 Revolution demolished Vienna absolutism and allowied for the emancipation of the serfs and the creation of a ministry that established the "April Laws" and the new constitution of Hungary. The Revolution was then followed by the War of Independence, but unfortunately, the intervention of the Russian Tsar's army conquered Hungary's thirst for freedom, and in 1849 the country was divided and assimilated into the newly organized Hapsburg Empire.
