Árpád von Klimó is at the Catholic University of America and has carried out extensive research in different fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history, mostly on Hungary, Italy and Germany.

• Introduction 1: 1956 – Key Event in Hungarian Postwar History 2: The Hungarian State: Caesuras and Continuity 3: Foreign Policy: From World War II to the European Union 4: From Capitalism to the Planned Economy and Back Again: Economic and Social Policy 1945-1989 5: Social Structures and Mobility 6: Lifestyles in Transition 7: Ethnic Homogenization and Minority Policy Within Hungary and Neighboring States 8: Churches and Religion 9: Hungarian politics since 1989 Bibliography

Árpád von Klimó is at the Catholic University of America and has carried out extensive research in different fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history, mostly on Hungary, Italy and Germany.

• Introduction 1: 1956 – Key Event in Hungarian Postwar History 2: The Hungarian State: Caesuras and Continuity 3: Foreign Policy: From World War II to the European Union 4: From Capitalism to the Planned Economy and Back Again: Economic and Social Policy 1945-1989 5: Social Structures and Mobility 6: Lifestyles in Transition 7: Ethnic Homogenization and Minority Policy Within Hungary and Neighboring States 8: Churches and Religion 9: Hungarian politics since 1989 Bibliography

Árpád von Klimó is at the Catholic University of America and has carried out extensive research in different fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history, mostly on Hungary, Italy and Germany.

• Introduction 1: 1956 – Key Event in Hungarian Postwar History 2: The Hungarian State: Caesuras and Continuity 3: Foreign Policy: From World War II to the European Union 4: From Capitalism to the Planned Economy and Back Again: Economic and Social Policy 1945-1989 5: Social Structures and Mobility 6: Lifestyles in Transition 7: Ethnic Homogenization and Minority Policy Within Hungary and Neighboring States 8: Churches and Religion 9: Hungarian politics since 1989 Bibliography