The Hungarians: A Divided Nation

Fülszöveg

Nationalism, the exaggerated political expression of nationality, has been the curse of this area [of Central and Eastern Europe], in which ethnic groups are often so intermingled that no clear lines can be drawn between them. It has contributed to two world wars and has not been laid to rest by the two postwar peace settlements. Increasing our understanding of these phenomena helps to define the problem. . . . This book should contribute to that understanding. Its focus is on the Hungarians and on their relation to their neighbors. It is in many ways a classic and instructive example. The Magyars of Hungary, after years of dominating other nationalities within the historic Hungárián state, found their own nation divided by the new frontiers drawn after World War I and confirmed after World War II. As a result of the postwar arrangements, many Hungarians now live under Czechoslovak, Soviet Ukrainian, Románián, and Yugoslav rule. Yet the problem is not merely a Hungárián one; it is... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Nationalism, the exaggerated political expression of nationality, has been the curse of this area [of Central and Eastern Europe], in which ethnic groups are often so intermingled that no clear lines can be drawn between them. It has contributed to two world wars and has not been laid to rest by the two postwar peace settlements. Increasing our understanding of these phenomena helps to define the problem. . . . This book should contribute to that understanding. Its focus is on the Hungarians and on their relation to their neighbors. It is in many ways a classic and instructive example. The Magyars of Hungary, after years of dominating other nationalities within the historic Hungárián state, found their own nation divided by the new frontiers drawn after World War I and confirmed after World War II. As a result of the postwar arrangements, many Hungarians now live under Czechoslovak, Soviet Ukrainian, Románián, and Yugoslav rule. Yet the problem is not merely a Hungárián one; it is more generál. . . . The political destiny of nations of this area has been determined in large measure by the interlocking of national aims with the policies and conflicts of the Great Powers. . . . This book is a combined effort by distinguished scholars (somé in Hungary, but most of them in the West) to describe the historical origins of the problem, its changing shape over the years, and its present dimensions. . . . [This volume] should be read, above all, not as a brief for Hungarians subject to oppression or discrimination by other nations, not as a plea for revision of frontiers, but as an effort to expose a problem for all to see and to seek constructive solutions to it. John C. Campbell in his "Introduction" Vissza