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Record Nr.

UNISA996248213703316

Autore

Berend T. Iván (Tibor Iván), <1930->

Titolo

History in My Life : A Memoir of Three Eras  / / Ivan T. Berend

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2009

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2014

©2009

ISBN

9786155211775

978-615-5211-77-5

978-6-15521-177-5

963-386-224-8

615-5211-77-9

1-283-24827-1

9786613248275

1-4416-3587-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

335.092

B

Soggetti

Immigrants - California - Los Angeles

Socialism - Europe, Central

Socialism - Europe, Eastern

Intellectuals - Hungary

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction and acknowledgement -- My family in Budapest in the 1930's -- With my mother, father and brother Ervin in 1935 -- The end of childhood -- Dachau--and the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft's conference in Munich -- The Gebirgsjägerschule in Mittenwald -- Where is my home? -- The 1956 revolution in my life -- My universities -- A widening world, learning by traveling -- In the international community of historians : friends all over the world -- Experiencing and writing history : a special friend, books and debates -- Teaching in



two different university systems -- My globalized family -- In the establishment -- In the storm of the regime change -- Leaving Hungary for Los Angeles -- America.

Sommario/riassunto

Berend's memoir offers an interesting case study, a subjective addition to the "objective" historical works on Central and Eastern European state socialism. It describes the hard choices of intellectuals in a dictatorial state: 1. remain in isolation, concentrate on scholarly works, and exclude politics in your personal life; 2. be in opposition, criticize and unveil the regime, accept discrimination and exclusion; 3. remain within the establishment and work for reforming the country using legal possibilities to criticize the regime and to achieve changes from within.The book raises basic historical questions and debates, compares East European and American higher education systems, and presents an eyewitness' insights on life in the United States.