Rhymes from Central Europe

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/rhymes-from-central-europe/

Norman Stone’s sparkling new book, Hungary: A Short History, is a warning against ignoring history. It presents a country that never quite “caught up” with the West, and therefore never “settled down” to a calm post-nationalist existence. The modernising influence of industrialisation has always been subsumed in the problem of borders, religions, languages, and nationalities.

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more on Hungary in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=hungary