TY - BOOK AU - Palasik,Mária AU - Palasik,Mária TI - Chess Game for Democracy: Hungary Between East and West, 1944-1947 SN - 9780773587434 AV - DB956 -- .P34 2011eb U1 - 943.905/2 PY - 2011/// CY - Montreal PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Hungary-History KW - Hungary-History-1945-1989 KW - Hungary-Politics and government-1945-1989 KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3332463 ER -