Contemporary Hungarian Society [antikvár]

"Hungary is situated in the Carpathian Basin in CentralEastern Europe. It occupies an area of 35,911 square miles and has a population of 10,314,000. It went through a profound transformation after the Second World War. Its constitutional form: people's democracy. It has close ties with the other socialist countries of this region." That is approximately how the various encyclopaedias-attributing various value contents to the words-characterize contemporary Hungary. What do these words mean, what depths, historic solutions and dramas are compressed into these terse statements? What sort of still potent consequences follow from the fact that Hungary-an Eastern European country-relatively cut off from the Western European centres of bourgeois progress was for a century and a half an adjunct of the Turkish and later for centuries of the Habsburg Empire? What sort of policy led to the Peace Treaty of Trianon and later, after the Second World War, to the Treaty of Paris, which determined the present territory of Hungary? Is there a connection between the obscurantism of this policy and Hungary's earlier social structure? What were the main