1st Edition

History in My Life A Memoir of Three Eras

By Ivan T. Berend Copyright 2009
286 Pages
by Central European University Press

286 Pages
by Central European University Press

Ivan T. Berend is Distinguished Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Director of the European Studies Program. He was one of the masterminds of regime change in Hungary. He made a career in Hungary as a university professor, Rector of the University of Economics (1973–79), and President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1985–90). He was President of the International... Read more
List of Photos, Introduction and Acknowledgement, My Family in Budapest in the 1930s, The End of Childhood, Dachau—and the Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft's Conference in Munich, The Gebirgsjägerschule in Mittenwald, Where is my Home? The 1956 Revolution in My Life, My Universities, A Widening World, Learning by Traveling, In the International Community of Historians: Friends All Over the World, Experiencing and Writing History: a Special Friend, Books and Debates, Teaching in Two Different University Systems, My Globalized Family, In the Establishment, In the Storm of the Regime Change, Leaving Hungary for Los Angeles, America, References, List of Photos

Biography

Ivan T. Berend is Distinguished Research Professor at the History Department of the University of California Los Angeles.