ABSTRACT
By constituting the fourth-largest national minority in inter-war Europe, the largest national minority in post-war Communist Europe and the third-largest national minority in post-Communist Europe, the Hungarians have collectively proved to be the longestrunning, most intractable European minority concern of the twentieth century. While some minority phenomena have suddenly appeared (like the Unexpected Diaspora of Russians precipitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union), others have gradually diminished (like the Dissolving Diasporas of Germans and Jews) and a few are only just being acknowledged (like the Forgotten Diaspora of Gypsies). The Enduring Diaspora of Hungarians, however, has persisted fundamentally unchanged and conspicuously unresolved from the First World War through to the present day.
