Between Russia and the West

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"A former Hungárián diplomát combines personal recollection with historical research and a sure sense of political reality to give us a revealing account of the fate of Hungary, a nation with very little control over its own destiny, drawn intő world war by Germany and emerging from it under the domination of Russia. The story, especially the way in which the victorious powers dealt with each other in trying to deal with prostrated Hungary, is worth teliing and is well told." -Foreign Affairs "This book-part memoir, part history, part political analysis-is an accoimt of the tribulations of Hungary during the twilight years 1945 to 1947, when people could still entertain hopes of an eventual Soviet withdrawal from their country. Fór many reasons-and nőt only because of the Russians' presence and their malevolence -the room within which Hungárián statesmen, politicians, and diplomats could maneuver was extremely constricted. . . . What Professor Kertesz's judicious account provides is... Tovább

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"A former Hungárián diplomát combines personal recollection with historical research and a sure sense of political reality to give us a revealing account of the fate of Hungary, a nation with very little control over its own destiny, drawn intő world war by Germany and emerging from it under the domination of Russia. The story, especially the way in which the victorious powers dealt with each other in trying to deal with prostrated Hungary, is worth teliing and is well told." -Foreign Affairs "This book-part memoir, part history, part political analysis-is an accoimt of the tribulations of Hungary during the twilight years 1945 to 1947, when people could still entertain hopes of an eventual Soviet withdrawal from their country. Fór many reasons-and nőt only because of the Russians' presence and their malevolence -the room within which Hungárián statesmen, politicians, and diplomats could maneuver was extremely constricted. . . . What Professor Kertesz's judicious account provides is the very opposite of the usual view of American diplomacy during those years. . . . His book is a model of calm and honest judgment."-7Vűriona/ Review "To understand the dilemmas of today's Eastem Europe, one must have an appreciation of the region's turbulent and complicated history. . . . Kertesz's study casts new light on an important facet of that history." -Zbigniew Brzezinski, Columbia University "The major accomplishment of Kertesz's book is the vast information it provides on Hungary's ethnic and territorial disputes with Rumania, Yugoslavia, and above all Czechoslovakia. This is the first time that so much documentation has been made available in English, and coming from the scholarly pen of this former diplomát the book is of inestimable value to a study of East European statecraft in the 1940s." -East European Quarterly The laté Stephen D. Kertész was professor emeritus of govemment and intemational studies at the University of Notre Dame. A Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellow, he taught at Budapest and Yale and was Visiting Fellow in tHe Center of International Studies at Princeton University. Professor Kertész edited numerous books and published widely in intemational joumals. He was the author of Diplomacy in a Whirlpool and The Quest fór Peace Through Diplomacy. Vissza