23. Who was Captain Gusev? Russian "Freedom Fighters" between Minsk and Budapest

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Maps x
5. Foreword to the English Edition xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. "Heathen Barbarians" overrun Europe: Evidence from St Gallen 7
8. 2. Land Acquisition or Conquest? The Question of Hungarian Identity 12
9. 3. From Magyar Mayhem to the Christian Kingdom of the Arpads 27
10. 4. The Struggle for Continuity and Freedom 38
11. 5. The Mongol Invasion of 1241 and its Consequences 49
12. 6. Hungary's Rise to Great Power Status under Foreign Kings 62
13. 7. The Heroic Age of the Hunyadis and the Turkish Danger 75
14. 8. The Long Road to the Catastrophe of Mohacs 86
15. 9. The Disaster of Ottoman Rule 94
16. 10. Transylvania—the Stronghold of Hungarian Sovereignty 106
17. 11. Gabor Bethlen—Vassal, Patriot and European 114
18. 12. Zrinyi or Zrinski? One Hero for Two Nations 126
19. 13. The Rebel Leader Thokoly: Adventurer or Traitor? 137
20. 14. Ferenc Rakoczi s Fight for Freedom from the Habsburgs 145
21. 15. Myth and Historiography: an Idol through the Ages 155
22. 16. Hungary in the Habsburg Shadow 160
23. 17. The Fight against the "Hatted King" 177
24. 18. Abbot Martinovics and the Jacobin Plot: a Secret Agent as Revolutionary Martyr 183
25. 19. Count Istvan Szechenyi and the "Reform Era": Rise and Fall of the "Greatest Hungarian" 191
26. 20. Lajos Kossuth and Sandor Petofi: Symbols of 1848 206
27. 21. Victories, Defeat and Collapse: The Lost War of Independence, 1849 222
28. 22. Kossuth the Hero versus "Judas" Gorgey: "Good" and "Bad" in Sacrificial Mythology 242
29. 23. Who was Captain Gusev? Russian "Freedom Fighters" between Minsk and Budapest 260
30. 24. Elisabeth, Andrassy and Bismarck: Austria and Hungary on the Road to Reconciliation 266
31. 25. Victory in Defeat: The Compromise and the Consequences of Dualism 281
32. 26. Total Blindness: The Hungarian Sense of Mission and the Nationalities 299
33. 27. The "Golden Age" of the Millennium: Modernization with Drawbacks 310
34. 28. "Magyar Jew or Jewish Magyar?" A Unique Symbiosis 329
35. 29. "Will Hungary become German or Magyar?" The Germans' Peculiar Role 348
36. 30. From the Great War to the "Dictatorship of Despair": the Red Count and Lenin's Agent 356
37. 31. The Admiral on a White Horse: Trianon and the Death Knell of St Stephen s Realm 373
38. 32. Adventurers, Counterfeiters, Claimants to the Throne: Hungary as Troublemaker in the Danube Basin 389
39. 33. Marching in Step with Hitler: Triumph and Fall. From the Persecution of Jews to Mob Rule 406
40. 34. Victory in Defeat: 1945-1990 427
41. 35. ''Everyone is a Hungarian": Geniuses and Artists 466
42. Summing-up 504
43. Notes 508
44. Significant Dates in Hungarian History 533
45. Index 557