The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in DefeatPrinceton University Press, 8.08.2004 г. - 584 страници The Hungarians is the most comprehensive, clear-sighted, and absorbing history ever of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as "child-devouring cannibals" and "bloodthirsty Huns." But it wasn't long before the Hungarians became steadfast defenders of the Christian West and fought heroic freedom struggles against the Tatars (1241), the Turks (16-18th centuries), and, among others, the Russians (1848-49 and 1956). Paul Lendvai tells the fascinating story of how the Hungarians, despite a string of catastrophes and their linguistic and cultural isolation, have survived as a nation-state for more than 1,000 years. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Evidence from St Gallen | 7 |
Land Acquisition or Conquest? The Question of Hungarian Identity | 12 |
From Magyar Mayhem to the Christian Kingdom of the Árpáds | 27 |
The Struggle for Continuity and Freedom | 38 |
The Mongol Invasion of 1241 and its Consequences | 49 |
Hungarys Rise to Great Power Status under Foreign Kings | 62 |
The Heroic Age of the Hunyadis and the Turkish Danger | 75 |
Abbot Martinovics and the Jacobin Plot | 183 |
Symbols of 1848 | 206 |
the Lost War | 222 |
Good | 242 |
Who was Captain Gusev? Russian Freedom | 260 |
the Compromise and | 281 |
The Hungarian Sense of Mission | 299 |
Magyar Jew or Jewish Magyar?A Unique Symbiosis | 329 |
The Long Road to the Catastrophe of Mohács | 86 |
The Disaster of Ottoman Rule | 94 |
Transylvaniathe Stronghold of Hungarian Sovereignty | 106 |
Gábor BethlenVassal Patriot and European | 114 |
Zrinyi or Zrinski? One Hero for Two Nations | 126 |
Adventurer or Traitor? | 137 |
Ferenc Rákóczis Fight for Freedom from the Habsburgs | 145 |
an Idol through the Ages | 155 |
Hungary in the Habsburg Shadow | 160 |
The Fight Against the Hatted King | 177 |
Will Hungary be German or Magyar? The Germans | 348 |
Trianon and | 373 |
Adventurers Counterfeiters Claimants to | 389 |
Triumph and Fall | 406 |
19451990 | 427 |
Geniuses and Artists | 466 |
Summingup | 504 |
Chronology of Significant Events in Hungarian History | 533 |
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