Miklós Németh, the Premier of Peaceful Transition 1988–1990
Miklós Németh, the Premier of Peaceful Transition 1988–1990

Summary/Abstract: The publication, in October 2014, of the volume of retrospective interviews with Miklós Németh by András Oplatka was met with considerable interest in Hungary, for a number of reasons. One that readily meets the eye consists of the unusual career of Miklós Németh, who in November 1988 unexpectedly, perhaps even to himself, emerged from near-obscurity to become Prime Minister of Hungary then in the throes of economic crisis and political transformation, to head a government of experts that would, in barely two years’ time, see through the unprecedented historical process culminating in the peaceful overthrow of the Communist regime.

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