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A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture, a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city’s history
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A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture, a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city’s history
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A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture, a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city’s history
(leather cover, numbered copy) The country was disrupted into three parts during the Ottoman expansion then two of its parts were united. The large area became one political unit again in the middle of the 19th century. The nation was split into five parts in 1920.
Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristocrats who experienced the night of 3 March 1949. He spoke to people who survived the Romanian Gulag and met the youngest generation of the once distinguished aristocracy to talk about the restitution of assets and about the future.
A comprehensive first-hand historical compilation of the Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath, including the 50th anniversary with more than 160 interviews, accounts, anecdotes, documents, poems and pictures from survivors, friends and adversaries from all walks of life worldwide.
The 1956 Hungarian revolution, and its suppression by the U.S.S.R., was a key event in the cold war, demonstrating deep dissatisfaction with both the communist system and old-fashioned Soviet imperialism.