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A Scandal in Tiszadomb Understanding Modern Hungary Through the History of Three Families

By Marida Hollos Copyright 2001
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

This fascinating book tells the story of modern Hungarian society through the interconnected lives of several families in a small town on the Great Hungarian Plain. It opens in 1989 - on the eve of communism's collapse - with the suicide of the town's dynamic and popular mayor. The author quickly sketches in the details of the small scandal that precipitated the mayor's shocking act. Amazingly... Read more
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Biography

Hollos, Marida