Dealing with Dictators - The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942-1989 (Hardcover)

Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this period, US policies were a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and economic penetration, and coercive diplomacy. Through careful examination of American and Hungarian sources, Laszlo Borhi assesses why some policies toward Hungary achieved their goals while others were not successful. When George H. W. Bush exclaimed to Mikhail Gorbachev on the day the Soviet Union collapsed, "Together we liberated Eastern Europe and unified Germany," he was hardly doing justice to the complicated history of the era. The story of the process by which the transition from Soviet satellite to independent state occurred in Hungary sheds light on the dynamics of systemic change in international politics at the end of the Cold War.

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Laszlo Borhi
Translators:	Jason Vincz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	564
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-01939-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Diplomacy Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-253-01939-7
Barcode:	9780253019394

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