Recent Publications

Tomáš G. Masaryk, a Scholar and a Statesman
the political thought of Thomas G. Masaryk (1850−1937), the first president of Czechoslovakia

Forbidden Federalism: Secret Diplomacy and the Struggle for a Danubian Confederation: 1918-1921
Secret Diplomacy and the Struggle for a Danubian Confederation, 1918−1921 Zoltán Bécsi
Publications

White and Red Umbrella. The Polish American Congress in the Cold War Era (1944-1988)
This volume presents goals and everyday activities of the Polish American Congress under the presidencies of Charles Rozmarek (1944-1968) and Aloysius Mazewski (1968-1988) who shaped its image in the Cold War era.

Tomáš G. Masaryk, a Scholar and a Statesman
the political thought of Thomas G. Masaryk (1850−1937), the first president of Czechoslovakia

Third Europe. Polish Federalist Thought in the United States – 1940–1970s
The genesis of the federalist thought that the book discusses is related to the collapse of the international order in East Central Europe in the years 1938-1939, which also marked a breakthrough in political concepts.

The War of the Princes: The Bohemian Lands and the Holy Roman Empire 1546-1555
The mid 16th century represents a turning point in the history of Central Europe. What really happened in Bohemia at that time?

The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare: Cold War Organizations Sponsored by the National Committee for a Free Europe
Each of the essays in this volume focuses on an organization or activity funded through the National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc.

Stigmatized: A History of Hungary’s Internal Deportations during the Communist Dictatorship
This volume recounts in detail the history of the internment and the internal deportation, in Hungary of Hungary’s aristocracy and professional classes during the era of Mátyás Rákosi, 1947-1953.

Night and Fog: The Collected Dramas and Screenplays of Danilo Kiš
This volume of translations represents the entire dramatic and cinematic ouevre of the Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš (1935-1989).

July 1944: Deportation of the Jews of Budapest Foiled
This volume investigates a little known controversy about the year 1944, in Hungary: did a unit of the Hungarian army prevent the deportation of 300,000 Jewish Hungarians to the Nazi death camps?

In Search of the Budapest Secession: The Artist Proletariat and Modernism’s Rise in the Hungarian Art Market, 1800–1914
Jeffrey Taylor details the nineteenth century origin of the art market in a Central European nation as its economy was shifting during the Industrial Revolution.

German War — Russian Peace: The Hungarian Tragedy, The wartime memoir of Hungarian Minister Antal Ullein-Reviczky
The book contains the wartime memoirs of Antal Ullein-Reviczky. His memoir is an invaluable source about Hungary’s fate in World War II.

Forbidden Federalism: Secret Diplomacy and the Struggle for a Danubian Confederation: 1918-1921
Secret Diplomacy and the Struggle for a Danubian Confederation, 1918−1921 Zoltán Bécsi

Fateful Years 1938–1945 (Végzetes esztendök 1938–1945)
Little known outside of Hungary, Vilmos Nagybaczoni Nagy (30 May 1884–21 June 1976) was the first Hungarian to be named “Righteous Among The Nations” by Yad Vashem.

Comrade Baron
To record this unknown episode of recent history, Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristocrats who experienced the night of 3 March 1949.

Being Hungarian in Cleveland
In this work, historian Endre Szentkiralyi examines the concept of “being Hungarian in Cleveland”

Agents of Liberation: Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film
The book explores representations of the Holocaust in contemporary art practices.

A Nation Adrift The 1944-1945 wartime diaries of Miksa Fenyő Az elsodort ország
This compelling, articulate and often painful diary was written while Miksa Fenyő, one of the most prominent public intellectuals in Hungary, was in hiding from the Gestapo and the Hungarian Fascist Arrow-Cross.

21st Century Hungarian Language Survival in Transylvania
This book examines the present-day situation of Hungarian as minority language in Romania.