Palasik, Mária.

Chess Game for Democracy : Hungary Between East and West, 1944-1947. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (249 pages)

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Antecedents -- 2 The Transition Period: From War to Peace -- 3 Consolidation and Confrontation -- 4 The Takeover in the Coalition -- 5 Endgame in Hungary -- Epilogue -- Biographies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

In the turbulent years between 1944 and 1947, Hungarian politics was marked by constant conflict between the two most powerful parties in the governing coalition - the Independent Smallholders Party and the Communist Party. The history of this struggle reads like a series of moves in a dramatic chess game, where no one could predict the outcome.

9780773587434


Hungary-History.
Hungary-History-1945-1989.
Hungary-Politics and government-1945-1989.


Electronic books.

DB956 -- .P34 2011eb

943.905/2