Hungary
Valery Rees surveys the life of the ruler who put 15th-century Hungary on the map, both culturally and geographically, but whose efforts may have put an intolerable strain on the body politic. |
Richard Wilkinson has enjoyed two books on 17th-century France; Jonathan Dudley has enjoyed a biography of the journalist and political campaigner Henry Nevinson; Paula Bartley has immersed herself in a major new history of the Magyars. Published in History Review, Issue: 57, 2007
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Cartoon historian Mark Bryant looks at the career of Victor Weisz (Vicky), for whom the Hungarian Uprising and its repression by Soviet tanks proved a political turning-point and the catalyst for some of his most powerful cartoons. |
Michael Simmons has been back to Budapest as it prepares to commemorate the anniversary of the 1956 Uprising, and finds many questions still unanswered. |
Gabriel Ronay remembers the dramatic days of October 1956 when, as a student in Budapest, he was at the heart of the protests against the Soviet occupation. |
John Mason describes the convoluted way in which Hungary has publicly celebrated its history through all the vicissitudes of its recent past. |
The Hungarian Diet issued its manifesto for independence on April 14th, 1849. It proved to be a mistake, however. |
Mikhail Gorbachev's period as President of the Soviet Union, 1985-91, was truly revolutionary. But Steven Morewood argues that he failed to understand or control the forces he unleashed. |
Valery Rees surveys the life of the ruler who put 15th-century Hungary on the map, both culturally and geographically, but whose efforts may have put an intolerable strain on the body politic. |
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