Rudolf L. Tőkés

INTRODUCTIONThe birth of Hungary's 'new democracy' was a peaceful, yet complex process. Depending on one's perspective, the period of gestation could be seen as being either as long as the nation's centuries-long struggle for freedom and independence, or as less than a year (June 1989-April 1990)....

Preface and acknowledgmentsThis boolc is the result of many years of thinking, reflection, and intellectual soul-searching about my native land, w^hich I, then a third-year law student, left in November 1956. After an extremely rewarding twenty-year detour of studying, teaching, and writing about...

Preface The Communist Party of Hungary was founded in November, 1918, by a group of Russian-trained Hungarian former prisoners of war and indigenous left socialists for the purpose of overthrowing the democratic government of Mihály Károlyi and establishing a revolutionary beachhead in Hungary...