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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.
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.
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