Dealing with Dictators

László Borhi is Peter A. Kadas Associate Chair and Professor of Central European History at Indiana University and Scientific Counsellor of the Institute of History Center for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy. He is the author of Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union (2004) and the co-author and co-editor of Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary and Austria, 1944-1948 (forthcoming). He is the recipient of the Gold Cross of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (2006), the Zoltán Bezerédj Prize of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage of Hungary (2006), and the György Ránki Prize of the Hungarian Historical Association (1995).Translator Jason Vincz, a specialist in Anglo-American and Eastern European literature, holds degrees from Harvard College, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University.

L¿l¿ Borhi is Peter A. Kadas Associate Chair and Professor of Central European History at Indiana University and Scientific Counsellor of the Institute of History Center for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy. He is the author of Hungary in the Cold War, 1945¿1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union (2004) and the¿co-author and co-editor of Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary and Austria, 1944¿1948 (forthcoming). He is the recipient of the Gold Cross of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (2006), the Zolt¿Bezer¿ Prize of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage of Hungary (2006), and the Gy¿rgy R¿i Prize of the Hungarian Historical Association (1995).

Introduction1. Peace Overtures, the Allies, and the Holocaust, 1942-19452. Cuius Regio, Eius Religio: The United States and the Soviet Seizure of Power3. Rollback4. 1956: Self-Liberation5. Reprisals and Bridge-Building6. The Dilemmas of External Transformation7. "The Status Quo is Not So Bad": Détente8. Nixon, Carter, and the Kádár Regime9. "Love Towards Kádár": Reagan and the Myth of Liberation10. 1989: "Together We Liberated Eastern Europe"ConclusionBibliographyIndex