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L’ipoteca del buon feudatario. Il tardo kádárismo e il fallimento della democrazia ungherese post 1989
The mortgage of the good feudal lord. Late Kádárism and the failure of Hungarian democracy after 1989
Bottoni, Stefano
2025
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Abstract
This contribution aims to evaluate the long-term consequences of the Kádár regime’s stability in the context of recent Hungarian political and social history. The question is: under what conditions did the “good dictator”, who was respected by the vast majority of his fellow citizens, leave the country on the eve of the 1989-90 transformations? Was the Hungary that emerged from Kádárism for real the model pupil of Eastern European démocratisation, or was the “new” Hungary a «democratic bubble» instead, overestimated by international observers and Hungarian scholars themselves? Furthermore, to what extent does the sixth authoritarian experiment in the space of a century, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán since 2010, owe its origins to the social bloc and collective mentality formed during the Kádár period?
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Stefano Bottoni, "L’ipoteca del buon feudatario. Il tardo kádárismo e il fallimento della democrazia ungherese post 1989" in: "Qualestoria. Rivista di storia contemporanea. LIII, N.ro 2, Dicembre 2025", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2025, pp. 119-134
Languages
it
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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