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Bálint Magyar: Viktor Orbán’s post-communist mafia state, Part II
We left off yesterday at the point that the concentration of political power and organized corruption cannot be divided because they are both part of the very essence of the system. The mafia state has...
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Gyula Horn’s reminiscences of his role in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
I indicated in one of my comments to the discussion on Gyula Horn that I would touch on his controversial role after the failure of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 when for five or six months he served...
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János Kornai and Marxism
A few days ago I promised to write something about a short essay by János Kornai, the famous Hungarian economist, on his encounter with Marxism. The essay, entitled “Marx egy kelet-európai értelmiségi...
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The siege of Budapest: Neo-Nazis remember the “breakthrough” of February 11,...
Every year around this time the Hungarian press is full of stories about far-right groups celebrating the “breakthrough” of German and Hungarian forces on February 11, 1945 from the city of Budapest,...
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A brief history of the subcarpathian region of Ukraine; Kim Scheppele’s...
Way back I wrote an M.A. thesis in Russian and East European Studies at Yale University on the nationality problems of the revolutions of 1918-1919. Therefore I spent quite a bit of time studying the...
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Attila Ara-Kovács and Bálint Magyar: Can we learn from history?
After so many years, the Hungarian state is finding itself for the first time in a conflict where the external limits to the actions of its voluntarist leaders are determined not by impersonal economic...
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A critique of a political analysis on Hungary by Stratfor’s George Friedman
In the last few months I have been getting a daily newsletter from Stratfor, a private intelligence and forecasting company. No, I’m not a subscriber, and I doubt that Stratfor has many individual...
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Bálint Hóman is rehabilitated
Among the best-known Hungarian historians of the twentieth century were “Hóman-Szekfű.” The two last names grew together, something like Ilf-Petrov or Gilbert and Sullivan. They were the authors of a...
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The Hungarian government’s Anti-American rhetoric: László Kövér and Péter Boross
Two weeks ago Ambassador Colleen Bell returned to the United States to take part in the celebrations organized by the Hungarian Embassy in Washington for the sixtieth anniversary of the Hungarian...
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Mária Schmidt on George Soros, the grave digger of the left, Part II
Yesterday I began dissecting Mária Schmidt’s latest propaganda piece,“The Grave Digger of the Left,” which offers up second-hand conspiracy theories about George Soros’s philanthropic endeavors. In the...
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