East European Quarterly

PREFACE In preparing this book, I have become indebted to many individuals and institutions. Professor Stephen Fischer-Galati encouraged me to write this study. Reginald C. Stuart read the manuscript and provided invaluable suggestions on style and idiom. Michael Foley saw substantial portions...

introduction 1848 was the year of revolutions in Europe, and Hungary, too, experienced a major political and social upheaval. Hungary had two basic questions to solve in that year. As a feudal country, she had to institute modern economic and social systems. As part of the multinational Habsburg...

FOREWORD AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The views expressed in The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in Retrospect do not represent any consensus of beUefs among the editors and contributors. It can be expected that some contributors will not sympathize with all the sentiments expressed here; some may flatly...