Az amerikai magyar élet paradigmaváltása, avagy: Ludányi András „disszidens” és „visszidens” élete
The Paradigm Shift in Hungarian American Life, or the Life of András Ludányi an Expatriate and Returnee

Summary/Abstract: On the way to the RMDSZ congress in Brassó (15-17 January 1993), András Ludányi, American political scientist and professor, visited the Korunk editorial office. As he was in Debrecen on a Fulbright scholarship, he did not only investigate the phenomena after the regime change in Hungary; he also visited Transcarpathia, Upper Hungary, Transylvania, and Csángóföld. I learned later that his grandmother was born and died in Borbátvíz, in southern Transylvania. After the Romanian invasion, their father moved with the children to Szentes, then to Austria in 1945, and then to the United States. The most memorable experience of our first meeting was the discovery that I personally knew his closest comrade-in-arms and friend, Lajos Éltető (1938-2019), a professor at the University of Portland, with whom he organized the mail-distributed “blog”, the ITT-OTT correspondence and friendship community, and then in 1974 they founded the Hungarian Communion of Friends in the US. As his 2020 book, Amerikai életutam, reveals, reflecting on our past led Ludányi to consider the prospects for democracy in both the United States and the Carpathian Basin. His insights should be taken to heart.

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