History in My Life : : A Memoir of Three Eras / / Ivan T. Berend.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Berend, Ivan T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)

Berend's memoir offers an interesting case study, a subjective addition to the "objective" historical works on Central and Eastern European state socialism. It describes the hard choices of intellectuals in a dictatorial state: 1. remain in isolation, concentrate on scholarly works, and exclude politics in your personal life; 2. be in opposition, criticize and unveil the regime, accept discrimination and exclusion; 3. remain within the establishment and work for reforming the country using legal possibilities to criticize the regime and to achieve changes from within.The book raises basic historical questions and debates, compares East European and American higher education systems, and presents an eyewitness' insights on life in the United States.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction and Acknowledgement -- My Family in Budapest in the 1930s -- The End of Childhood -- Dachau—and the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft’s Conference in Munich -- The Gebirgsjägerschule in Mittenwald -- Where is My Home? -- The 1956 Revolution in My Life -- My Universities -- A Widening World, Learning by Traveling -- In the International Community of Historians; Friends all Over the World -- Experiencing and Writing History: a Special Friend, Books and Debates -- Teaching in Two Different University Systems -- My Globalized Family -- In the Establishment -- In the Storm of Regime Change -- Leaving Hungary for Los Angeles -- America -- References -- List of Photos