Dan Richardson

INTRODUCTION Visitors who refer to Hungary as a Balkan country risk getting a lecture on how this small, landlocked nation of eleven million people differs from "all those Slavs". Hungary was likened by the poet Ady to a "river ferry, continually travelling between East and West, with always...

Pisitors who refer to Hungary as a Balkan country risk getting a lecture on how this small, landlocked nation of 10,658,000 people differs from "all those Slavs." Natives are strongly conscious of Hungary (likened by the poet Endre Ady to a ship sailing westwards against the tide of history)...