ABSTRACT
One of the key aspects of democratic transition and consolidation in Hungary has been the development of democratic civil-military relations. Compared with other former Warsaw Pact countries, Hungary had rather advanced democratic conditions by the end of the 1980s. Nevertheless, from 1989 it still had to undertake efforts to establish democratic civil-military relations. This process was relatively quick and successful because the military was co-operative and accepted the fact of democratic transition. It was also successful because the political society shared the belief of the necessity of building a new democratic system. Nevertheless, it only means that the most important elements of the democratic civil-military relations were set up peacefully and in time.
