Description: "In this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Bâekâes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Unlike many studies of the global Cold War that focus on East-West relationships--often from the vantage point of the West--Bâekâes grounds his work in the East, drawing on little-used, non-English sources"--
Brief description: Csaba Békés is research professor for the Centre of Social Sciences, founding director of the Cold War History Research Center, and professor of history at Corvinus University of Budapest.
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"Békés provides a host of theoretical innovations and novel interpretations as he recounts how Hungary both experienced and emerged from the Cold War. Drawing on his thirty years of work on the subject, Békés brings the history of this state at the fulcrum of Europe alive."--Mary Elise Sarotte, author of Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate