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SHORT HISTORY OF HUNGARY
Zoltán Halász / András Balla / Zsuzsa Béres (translation)
SECTION
I
Prehistoric Survey
The History of the Carpathian Basin (- 10th century)
Saint Stephen's Legacy (11th -
12th centuries)
SECTION II
The Mongol Invasion and the Second
Conquest (13th century)
The Prosperity of the Angevin
Period and the Stormy Reign of
Sigismund of Luxemburg (14th
century)
The Hunyadi Era (15th century)
The Peasant Rebellion of 1514
and the Battle of Mohács (the early 16th century)
SECTION III
The Tripartite Division of Hungary
(the late 16th century)
Struggles against the Turks and
the Hapsburgs (17th century)
The Expulsion of the Turks and
the Kuruc War of Independence
(the early 18th century)
From the Pragmatic Sanction to
the Hungarian Jacobins (the late 18th century)
SECTION IV
The Reform Movement and the 1848-49
War of Independence (the early 19th century)
The Compromise and Hungary in the Dual Monarchy (the late 19th
century)
Hungary in the First World War.
The Years 1918-19 (1914-1919)
SECTION V
Hungary in the Inter-War Years
(1920-1945)
Reconstruction, Stalinism, the
1956 Revolution (1946-1956)
The Kádár Regime. The Rebirth of
Parliament Democracy (1957-)
Much more detailed:
A HISTORY OF MODERN HUNGARY:
1867-1994
Jorg Hirsch / Kim Travnor (translation)
CHAPTER
I
HUNGARY UNDER THE HABSBURGS UP TO
THE COMPROMISE OF 1867
The historical background up to
the revolution of1848-49
The failure of neo-absolutism,
1849-67
The content and significance of
the Compromise
CHAPTER
II
HUNGARY UNDER THE DUAL MONARCHY,
1867-1918
The political, social and
intellectual background
The development of the
political parties
Magyar nationalism and the
failure of the nationalities policy
Social stratification and
economic development
Religion, education and culture
The beginnings of national
self-government under Andráissy and Tisza
The consolidation of
internal politics
Hungary's influence on the
foreign policy of the Habsburg Monarchy
The crisis of dualism and
the loss of internal political stability
The effects of internal conflict
on Hungary's relationship to the Empire
The organisation and struggles of the
labour movement
Nationalities policy and
foreign policy
The First World War and the
collapse of the Habsburg Empire
CHAPTER III
HUNGARY BETWEEN THE WARS
The struggle for internal
political stability and territorial integrity, 1918-20
From Károlyi's
Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution to Kun's Soviet Republic
The 'White Terror' and the
Trianon Peace Treaty
The Horthy era
The successes and failures
of the Bethlen government
The effects of the world economic
crisis
Hungary and the Third Reich
CHAPTER IV
HUNGARY DURING THE SECOND WORLD
WAR
CHAPTER
V
THE CREATION OF THE HUNGARIAN PEOPLE'S
DEMOCRACY, 1945-56
The political and economic
background to the gradual Communist takeover, 1945-48
The personal dictatorship of
Mátyás Rákosi
The failure of the 'New Course'
and the popular uprising of October 1956
CHAPTER VI
HUNGARY UNDER KÁDÁR
'He who is not against us, is with
us'
Reform Hungarian style
The demise of 'real existing
socialism' in Hungary,
1980-87
CHAPTER VII
THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY AND THE
MARKET ECONOMY
The end of one-party government,
1988-89
The development of a democratic
system
New political challenges
A despairing backwards
somersault
HUNGARY: A BRIEF HISTORY
István Lázár / Albert Tezla (translation)
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