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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Illustrations
Maps
Foreword to the English Edition
Introduction
1. “Heathen Barbarians” overrun Europe: Evidence from St Gallen
2. Land Acquisition or Conquest? The Question of Hungarian Identity
3. From Magyar Mayhem to the Christian Kingdom of the Árpáds
4. The Struggle for Continuity and Freedom
5. The Mongol Invasion of 1241 and its Consequences
6. Hungary’s Rise to Great Power Status under Foreign Kings
7. The Heroic Age of the Hunyadis and the Turkish Danger
8. The Long Road to the Catastrophe of Mohács
9. The Disaster of Ottoman Rule
10. Transylvania—the Stronghold of Hungarian Sovereignty
11. Gábor Bethlen—Vassal, Patriot and European
12. Zrinyi or Zrinski? One Hero for Two Nations
13. The Kuruc Leader Thököly: Adventurer or Traitor?
14. Ferenc Rákóczi’s Fight for Freedom from the Habsburgs
15. Myth and Historiography: an Idol through the Ages
16. Hungary in the Habsburg Shadow
17. The Fight Against the “Hatted King”
18. Abbot Martinovics and the Jacobin Plot
19. Count István Széchenyi and the “Reform Era”: the “Greatest Hungarian”
20. Lajos Kossuth and Sándor Petöfi: Symbols of 1848
21. Victories, Defeat and Collapse: the Lost War of Independence, 1849
22. Kossuth the Hero versus “Judas” Görgey: “Good” and “Bad” in Sacrificial Mythology
23. Who was Captain Gusev? Russian “Freedom Fighters” between Minsk and Budapest
24. Elisabeth, Andrássy and Bismarck: Austria and Hungary on the Road to Reconciliation
25. Victory in Defeat: the Compromise and the Consequences of Dualism
26. Total Blindness: The Hungarian Sense of Mission and the Nationalities
27. The “Golden Age” of the Millennium: Modernization with Drawbacks
28. “Magyar Jew or Jewish Magyar?” A Unique Symbiosis
29. “Will Hungary be German or Magyar?” The Germans’ Peculiar Role
30. From the Great War to the “Dictatorship of Despair”: the Red Count and Lenin’s Agent
31. The Admiral on a White Horse: Trianon and the Death Knell of St Stephen’s Realm
32. Adventurers, Counterfeiters, Claimants to the Throne: Hungary as Troublemaker in the Danube Basin
33. Marching in Step with Hitler: Triumph and Fall. From the Persecution of Jews to Mob Rule
34. Victory in Defeat: 1945–1990
35. “Everyone is a Hungarian”: Geniuses and Artists
Summing-up
Notes
Chronology of Significant Events in Hungarian History
Index
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