George Konrád

FEBRUARY 1945. WE ARE SITTING ON a bench in a motionless cattle car. I can't pull myself away from the open door and the wind whipping in off the snowy plains. I didn't want to be a constant guest in Budapest; I wanted to go homea weeklong trip to Berettyóújfalu, the town our parents had been...

Peace: Anti-Yalta To find the main reason for today's threat of war, we must go back to the year 1945, to Yalta. It was there that a helpless Europe was divided; it was there that agreements were reached for military zones of occupation that would become political spheres of interest as well....

PREFACE My friend George Konrád and I wrote this essay between December 1973 and September 1974 in Csobánka, a small working-class commuter village in the Buda Hills, about an hour's drive from Budapest. In it we attempted to sum up the results of the studies we had carried on in Hungary since...