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In this, the first biography in English since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Roger Gough paints a vivid picture of Kâadâar's personality and career, whilst analysing his significance for Hungary and his place in the history of European communism.
In this, the first biography in English since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Roger Gough paints a vivid picture of Kádár's personality and career, whilst analysing his significance for Hungary and his place in the history of European communism.
Few political lives have been as dramatic, or as marked by sudden changes of fortune, as that of Janos Kadar, Hungary's communist leader from 1956 to 1988. A reformist who at first supported Imre Nagy's 1956 attempt to distance his country from Soviet domination, Kadar eventuall…
"Traitor and reformer, persecutor and victim - Janos Kadar, Hungary's Communist leader from 1956 to 1988, had one of the most dramatic and influential political careers of the twentieth century. From poverty to power and then from prison back to power, Kadar played a leading rol…