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The Making of Dissidents
Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998
Victoria Harms
Before Hungary’s transition from communism to democracy, local dissidents and like-minded intellectuals, activists, and academics from the West influenced each other and inspired the fight for human rights and civil liberties in Eastern Europe. Hungarian dissidents provided Westerners with a new purpose and legitimized their public interventions in a bipolar world order. The Making of Dissidents demonstrates how Hungary’s Western friends shaped public perceptions and institutionalized their advocacy long before the peaceful revolutions of 1989. But liberalism failed to take root in Hungary, and Victoria Harms explores how many former dissidents retreated and Westerners shifted their attention elsewhere during the 1990s, paving the way for nationalism and democratic backsliding.
Book details
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication year
- 2024
- Collection
- Russian and East European Studies
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780822991458
- LAN
- 0c47985dfa1d
Format
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