Under the tenure of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the political system in Hungary has moved significantly in an autocratic direction, yet there is a lack of research explaining the historical context, political landscape and drive behind this shift. This book offers a deep histor…
by Pálffy, Géza
fromStudies in Hungarian History
by Pálffy, Géza
fromStudies in Hungarian History
Hungary after Mohács: A Century of Direction Seeking, 1526-1601 -- On the Frontier of Two Empires -- Roads from Istanbul to Vienna: The Ottomans in Hungary -- The Bumpy Road to Vienna: The Habsburgs and the Hungarians -- The Road to Istanbul: The State of King John Szapolyai and…
"After World War II, a new community of elite emerged in Hungary, in spite of the communist principles espoused by the government. In Luxury and the Ruling Elite in Socialist Hungary, György Majtényi allows us a peek inside their affluence. Majtényi exposes the lavish standard o…
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Alison Lewis, Valentina Glajar, and Corina L. Petrescu -- File stories -- The secret lives and files of stasi collaborators : reading the files for identity and habitus / Alison Lewis -- "You'll never make a spy out of me" : the…
"A helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister, and ... a wild boar hunt! Eleni Kounalakis was forty-three and a land developer in Sacramento, California, when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to serv…
The intent of this book is to examine what varoius countries have done in the area of health care financing, what the role of the national government has been, how the health care system is financed, how the providers are organized and structured, and whether these activities ha…
