Hungary has had a history, like many nations in Eastern Europe, full of estrangement, defeat, and authoritarianism followed by short
bursts of freedom only again to have its rule subjugated.  For all of the frequency and repetition with which these trends have occurred
in Hungary, it might appear that it almost enjoys this perpetual challenge, this up hill thousand year struggle it has had with European integration.
 

Hungarian Opera House/Magyar Allami Operahaz, Budapest (image courtesy of poster's-crazy.com)

Chapter One:  From the Dawn of Time to 1848.

Chapter Two:  From Trianon to Tragedy 1920-1956.

Chapter Three:  Goulash Communism and Goulash Capitalism 1968-Today.

Works Cited

Ash, Timothy Garten, The Green Lantern, Vintage Books:  New York, 1999.

CNN Presents:  Cold War, Jeremy Isaacs, Dir., 1999

Land, Thomas, "Rewriting Hungary's Past", Contemporary Review, (v280, i1634, p.158, Infotrac), March 2002.

Mason, John W., "Hungary's Battle for Memory", History Today, v50 i3, p. 28, Infotrac), March 2000.

R.R. Palmer and Joel Colton, A History of the Modern World, Knopf:  New York, Eighth Edition, 1995.

Joseph Rotschild and Nancy Wingfield, Return to Diversity, Oxford Press:  Oxford, Third Edition, 2000.

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