BUDAPEST, Hungary — Twenty years ago, Hungarians were finally allowed to honor the executed leaders of their 1956 anti-Soviet revolution. Today, they commemorated that turning point on the road to ...

“It was June 20, 1989, a warm summer night; by all accounts a perfect occasion for dreaming.” So begins Chapter One of political scientist Matthew Longo’s “The Picnic,” an elegantly crafted account of ...

The Hungarian government decided Sept. 11, 1989 to let East German citizens flee from Hungary to Austria and then to West Germany. By then, East Germans, who otherwise had customarily vacationed at ...

SOPRON, Hungary (Reuters) - Thirty years ago on Monday Hungarian border guards for the first time allowed people from communist East Germany to cross freely into Austria and hundreds of them rejoiced.

In the summer of 1989, President George H.W. Bush visited my birthplace of Budapest, Hungary. He was the first U.S. President to visit the country at the tail-end of the Cold War and was greeted with ...

Before Sándor Márai left Budapest in 1948, the author and journalist said that one of the biggest threats to his nation was loneliness: Invaded and occupied by everyone from the Mongols to the Turks ...

The Editors' decision to change the title of the long-established Soviet Studies, first published in 1949, followed the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. It reflected the belief that as ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Stem rust disease, caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici occurred sporadically every year in Hungary during 1989-1991. The main races, ...

ZANKA, Hungary (Reuters) - They called it the "Plattensee" (flat sea), and for Germans from both sides of the Berlin Wall, Hungary's Lake Balaton was close, cheap and mostly free of spies. No one knew ...