Transition and Transfer in Hungarian Academe
Transition and Transfer in Hungarian Academe

Summary/Abstract: Since the recent transition of regimes, changes in humanistic scholarship and social sciences in Hungary have been minimal. Academic institutions are still led by those selected during the last decades of the Communist regime. Not that there was no mobility on the highest level, but this mostly took place before the actual transition of regimes. Many senior scholars had suffered discrimination or persecution in the 1950s and 1960s. Then, with the onset of the relatively mild ideological climate of the later Kadar era, they were able to replace some prominent academics who owed their high positions to the old Stalinist regime. This late Kadarist status quo is still in place. [...]

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