| A Scandal in Tiszadomb: Understanding Modern Hungary Through the History of Three Families Contributor(s): Hollos, Marida (Author) |
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ISBN: 0765607409 ISBN-13: 9780765607409 Publisher: Routledge
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2001 Annotation: Traces the ups and downs of three families linked by a petty scandal that prompted their town's popular mayor to take his own life as the communist regime was toppling. The overall effect is a vision of twentieth century Hungarian society that no standard history can convey. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 943.9 |
| LCCN: 2001032822 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.33" W x 9.3" L (1.12 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1980's - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps |
| Review Citations: Choice 05/01/2002 pg. 1641 Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 115 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This fascinating book tells the story of modern Hungarian society through the interconnected lives of several families in a small town on the Great Hungarian Plain. It opens in 1989 - on the eve of communism's collapse - with the suicide of the town's dynamic and popular mayor. The author quickly sketches in the details of the small scandal that precipitated the mayor's shocking act. Amazingly enough, this small scandal in a small town became a sensation in the Hungarian national press during the months leading up to the fall of the regime. It was seen to typify the corruption of national life under the communist system. Following this prologue, each of the three parts of the book tells the story of one of the families over the course of the last century - and, through that family history, the story of one of the social groups making up the community. The ups and downs of each family are tied not only to the strengths and weaknesses of its individual members, but also to the twists and turns of East European history and the vagaries of politics under changing political regimes and economic systems. At the end of the book, the author revisits the town (in 1998) and the surviving characters, and tells of their fate in the new Hungary. |
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