New Approaches to Modern Hungarian History
New Approaches to Modern Hungarian History

Summary/Abstract: At a conference held six years ago in the Kossuth Club, Budapest, an important debate took place among Hungarian historians1. The conference was part of the preparation of the two volume „History of Hungary" (second edition2) currently the standard history of Hungary. The debate sheds light on textual differences between the first and the second editions of the book; more important, it helps elucidate long standing differences among Hungarian scholars about basic questions of modern Hungarian history. It also reveals a great deal about their differing intellectual outlook. In retrospect the conference held in 1966 can be said to have marked an important juncture in a continuing debate that has divided Hungarian historians for over twelve years, during which sudden outbursts have alternated with simmering disagreement3. The Kossuth Club debate on the „History of Hungary" can be followed from its minutes, (subsequently published in rotaprint with limited circulation) that have recently come to the notice of the present writer4

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