ABSTRACT
This study explores the connection between politics and historical scholarship in the case of the Hungarian historian, Gyula Szekfü, whose career spanned one of the most significant and eventful periods of Hungarian history. His writing is particularly suited for an inquiry into the relationship between politics and historiography becasue the changes in Szefkü’s political and historical points of view parallelled the drastic changes which occurred in Hungary.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part |66 pages
The Dualist Szekfü: 1904–1918
chapter |30 pages
Der Staat Ungarn and the Christian—German Cultural Community
chapter |15 pages
A Labanc View of Rákóczi
chapter |20 pages
Geistesgeschichte, Szekfü and Hungarian Historiography
part |143 pages
The Conservative Nationalist: 1919–1933
chapter |18 pages
After the Catastrophe: Assigning the Blame
chapter |21 pages
Széchenyi: The Touchstone of the Nation
chapter |33 pages
Liberalism: Three Generations of Decline
chapter |32 pages
The Jews: The Bane of the Nation
part |109 pages
The Realist Szekfü: 1933–1955 From St. Stephen's State to the Hungarian People's Republic
