Presentations:

1/ Introduction: Narratives, causality, comparison

Compulsory reading:

Trencsényi, Balázs. What Should I Call You? The Crisis of Hungarian Democracy in a Regional Interpretative Framework. In: Bálint Magyar and Júlia Vásárhelyi. Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State. 2017. CEU Press.

Recommended reading:

Bibó, István. The Miseries of East European Small States.  Ch. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In: Bibó, István, and Iván Zoltán Dénes (ed.). The Art of Peacemaking: Political Essays by István Bibó. World Thought in Translation. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 2015, pp. 130-180.

2/ 1989, Annus Mirabilis: making sense of an unusual revolution  

Compulsory reading:

       Ash, Timothy Garton. “Conclusions.” In Sorin Antohi and Vladimir Tismaneanu (eds.) Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath, 1st ed., 395–402. Central European University Press, 2000.

Recommended readings:

Bruszt, László, and George K. Horvath. “1989: The Negotiated Revolution in Hungary.” Social Research 57, no. 2 (1990): 365–87.

Kumar, Krishan. The Revolutions of 1989: Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy. Theory and Society, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Jun., 1992), pp. 309-356