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Book Review: A Twentieth-Century Prophet: Oscar Jászi, 1875–1957

Book Review: A Twentieth-Century Prophet: Oscar Jászi, 1875–1957 AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK 38 2007 als are asked to bear too much historical weight. Th is is particularly true in the book’s later chapters, in which, for example, Gyula Andrássy and Queen Elizabeth awkwardly stand in for all of Dualism, just as János Kádár is used to describe the last three decades of Communist rule. Indeed, it is both surprising and disappointing that Lendvai, who has published a number of works on postwar Eastern Europe, treats Kádár’s Hungary in such a cursory fashion. Th roughout the book, Lendvai dispels myths about the Hungarians. He argues that the early Hungar- ians’ appearance in the Carpathian Basin was less a “conquest” than a headlong fl ight from more powerful tribes hot on their heels (19). He also takes aim at Kálmán Tisza, Jenő Rákósi, and other proponents of nineteenth-century Hungarian chauvinism. Yet Lendvai occasionally engages in mythmaking of his own: he states that next to the Albanians, the Hungarians are “the most lonely people in Europe” (1), that a “national will to survive” carried the Hungarians through the Ottoman period; and that “probably in no other country are there so many good poets in proportion to the population” (486). Th is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Book Review: A Twentieth-Century Prophet: Oscar Jászi, 1875–1957

Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 38: 2 – Jan 18, 2010
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Cambridge University Press
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2007
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0067-2378
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1558-5255
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10.1017/S0067237800021561
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AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK 38 2007 als are asked to bear too much historical weight. Th is is particularly true in the book’s later chapters, in which, for example, Gyula Andrássy and Queen Elizabeth awkwardly stand in for all of Dualism, just as János Kádár is used to describe the last three decades of Communist rule. Indeed, it is both surprising and disappointing that Lendvai, who has published a number of works on postwar Eastern Europe, treats Kádár’s Hungary in such a cursory fashion. Th roughout the book, Lendvai dispels myths about the Hungarians. He argues that the early Hungar- ians’ appearance in the Carpathian Basin was less a “conquest” than a headlong fl ight from more powerful tribes hot on their heels (19). He also takes aim at Kálmán Tisza, Jenő Rákósi, and other proponents of nineteenth-century Hungarian chauvinism. Yet Lendvai occasionally engages in mythmaking of his own: he states that next to the Albanians, the Hungarians are “the most lonely people in Europe” (1), that a “national will to survive” carried the Hungarians through the Ottoman period; and that “probably in no other country are there so many good poets in proportion to the population” (486). Th is

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Published: Jan 18, 2010

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