A Good Comrade
Janos Kadar, Communism and Hungary
1st Edition
Published on 23. August 2006
320 pages
978-0-85771-298-1 (ISBN)
Description
Few political lives have been as dramatic, or as marked by sudden changes of fortune, as that of Janos Kadar, Hungary's communist leader from 1956 to 1988. A reformist who at first supported Imre Nagy's 1956 attempt to distance his country from Soviet domination, Kadar eventually threw in his lot with the Soviet Union and the repression which followed Hungary's attempt at revolution in 1956. Was he an ambitious, ruthless party functionary or a tragic visionary who sought to preserve a modicum of independence for his country by abandoning its aspirations and his friends? In this, the first biography in English since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Roger Gough paints a vivid picture of Kadar's personality and career, whilst analysing his significance for Hungary and his place in the history of European communism. "A Good Comrade" is a powerful portrait of a man who dominated Hungarian political life for three decades.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
Illustrations, ports.
ISBN-13
978-0-85771-298-1 (9780857712981)
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Book
08/2006
I.B. Tauris
€82.00
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Person
Roger Gough is a Research Fellow writing on international affairs for the think tank Policy Exchange. After reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked in international investment banking for fifteen years. He is married with a son, and lives in Kent, where he is an elected member of the County Council.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. 'We Are Not Beggars'
- 2. Becoming Comrade Kadar
- 3. Salami
- 4. 'You're the Enemy's Man'
- 5. Full Circle
- 6. The Apparat's Pin-Up
- 7. Our Glorious Uprising
- 8. Whirlwind
- 9. The Maggots of Counter-Revolution
- 10. Foundations
- 11. Khrushchev's Apprentice
- 12. Goulash
- 13. 1968: 'But You Know Them, Don't You?'
- 14. Crisis of Confidence
- 15. A Worker's State
- 16. Mitteleuropa Man
- 17. Credit Crunch
- 18. Limits
- 19. 'The Brutuses Showed Up'
- 20. Ghosts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
