Hungary's Cold War
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Hungary's Cold War

International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet Union

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hungary's Cold War

International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet Union

About this book

In this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Békés 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—Békés grounds his work in the East, drawing on little-used, non-English sources. As such, he offers a new and sweeping Cold War narrative using Hungary as a case study, demonstrating that the East-Central European states have played a much more important role in shaping both the Soviet bloc's overall policy and the East-West relationship than previously assumed. Similarly, he shows how the relationship between Moscow and its allies, as well as among the bloc countries, was much more complex than it appeared to most observers in the East and the West alike.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: The Emerging Cold War
  10. Chapter 2: Hungary’s Road to the Soviet Bloc
  11. Chapter 3: East Central Europe and the First Phase of Long Détente, 1953–1956
  12. Chapter 4: Crisis Year, 1956: Poland, Hungary, Suez
  13. Chapter 5: The International Impact of the Polish and Hungarian Revolts
  14. Chapter 6: Hungary and the Soviet Bloc in the Khrushchevian Experimental Era, 1956–1964
  15. Chapter 7: The Main Features of Kádárist Foreign Policy
  16. Chapter 8: The German Question and the CSCE Process: Foreign Policy Coordination and Lobby Fights in the Soviet Bloc, 1964–1975
  17. Chapter 9: Standby Détente: Hungary as the Promoter of East–West Relations
  18. Chapter 10: The Soviet Union and East Central Europe, 1985–1990
  19. Chapter 11: The International Context of the Political Transition in Hungary
  20. Epilogue: The End of the Soviet Bloc
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index