András Gerő

Although the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and withit the passing of the historical Kingdom of Hungary, was a painful and bloodyprocess, this period was significant. There was a shift towards contemporarymodern Europe, a spread of a middle class way of life and its attributes, anda...

CEU History Department Yearbook, 1993, pp. 9-21istory of the CEU History DepartmentThe common histoiy of East-Central Europe and the fostering of intra-regional cultural links is rooted in the revolutionary movement of 1848, when the first confederation plans were born, and in the beginning of the...

PrefaceMost of Central and Eastern Europe began to emerge from feudalism as early as the 1840s. In some cases this emergence took more radical forms (uprisings and revolutions), while in others it manifested itself in more peaceful processes, for example, change initiated from above.In my opinion,...

PICTURES FROM THE KADAR ERA s. Sometimes we sense it at the time, or else we come to realize it later, that an era has begun, or ended. Usually, however, a certain distance, the passage of time, is needed to provide the perspective for seeing matters with a degree of certainty. Nonetheless we...