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Dealing with Dictators: The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942-1989
Laszlo Borhi
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Description for Dealing with Dictators: The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942-1989
Hardback. Translator(s): Vincz, Jason. Num Pages: 562 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 35. Weight in Grams: 894.
Dealing with Dictators explores America's efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests during the Cold War era. US policies included a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and economic penetration, and coercive diplomacy. Through careful examination of American and Hungarian sources, Laszlo Borhi assesses why some policies toward Hungary achieved their goals while others did not. When George H. W. Bush exclaimed to Mikhail Gorbachev on the day the Soviet Union collapsed, Together we liberated Eastern Europe and unified Germany, he was hardly doing justice ... Read more
Dealing with Dictators explores America's efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests during the Cold War era. US policies included a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and economic penetration, and coercive diplomacy. Through careful examination of American and Hungarian sources, Laszlo Borhi assesses why some policies toward Hungary achieved their goals while others did not. When George H. W. Bush exclaimed to Mikhail Gorbachev on the day the Soviet Union collapsed, Together we liberated Eastern Europe and unified Germany, he was hardly doing justice ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
893g
Number of Pages
562
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253019394
SKU
V9780253019394
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About Laszlo Borhi
Laszlo Borhi is Peter A. Kadas Associate Chair and Professor of Central European History at Indiana University and Scientific Counsellor of the Institute of History Center for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy. He is the author of Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union (2004) and coauthor and coeditor of Soviet Occupation of ... Read more
Reviews for Dealing with Dictators: The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942-1989
[T]his invaluable reference work belongs on the library shelf of any Cold War scholar.
Slavic Review
Laszlo Borhi's Dealing with Dictators makes a valuable contribution from both a theoretical and empirical point of view to the history of communist regimes leading up to the end of the Cold War. . . . It is meticulously documented, drawing ... Read more
Slavic Review
Laszlo Borhi's Dealing with Dictators makes a valuable contribution from both a theoretical and empirical point of view to the history of communist regimes leading up to the end of the Cold War. . . . It is meticulously documented, drawing ... Read more