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Dealing with Dictators : The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942-1989 /

Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this period, US policies were a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and ec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Borhi, László (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hungarian
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Dealing with Dictators explores America's Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country's international interests. During this period, US policies were a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and economic penetration, and coercive diplomacy. Through careful examination of American and Hungarian sources, László Borhi assesses why some policies toward Hungary achieved their goals while others were not successful. When George H. W. Bush exclaimed to Mikhail Gorbachev on the day the Soviet Union collapsed, "Together we liberated Eastern Europe and unified Germany," he was hardly doing justice to the complicated history of the era. The story of the process by which the transition from Soviet satellite to independent state occurred in Hungary sheds light on the dynamics of systemic change in international politics at the end of the Cold War.
Notas:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (564 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-539) and index.
ISBN:9780253019479
Acceso:Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.