Book Reviews : Paths of Continuity. Central European Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s. Edited by Hartmut Lehmann and James Van Horn Melton. Pub lications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni versity Press. 1994. x + 406 pp.  40.00/$64.95: Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein kritischer Uberblick im inter nationalen Zusammenhang. By Georg G. Iggers. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 1993. 130 pp. DM17.80

[Book reviews] Winiecki, J.: Transition Economies and Foreign Trade. London and New York: Routledge, 2002, 150 pp.; Olson, M.: Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorship. New York: Basic Books, 2000, 233 pp.; Krizsán, A. - Zentai, V. (eds): Reshaping Globalization - Multilateral Dialogues and New Initiatives. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003, 327 pp.

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Book Reviews : Pittock, A. B., Frakes, L. A., Jenssen, D., Peterson, J. A. and Zillman, J. W., editors, 1978: Climatic change and variability: a southern perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 455 pp. £I7.50. Gribbin, J., editor, 1978: Climatic change. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni versity Press. xi+280 pp. £I7.50 cloth, £6.50 paper

Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment ◽

10.1177/030913337900300112 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 156-160

Author(s):

F. Alayne Street

Keyword(s):

Climatic Change ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Versity Press

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Book reviews : Hoerder, D. and Nagler, J., editors, 1995: People in transit: German migrations in comparative per spective, 1820-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni versity Press. xvi + 438 pp. f40.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 521 47412 4

Progress in Human Geography ◽

10.1177/030913259602000419 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 564-565

Author(s):

Philip N. Jones

Keyword(s):

In Transit ◽

Versity Press

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DISCRIMINATION, OPPORTUNITY, AND MIDDLE-CLASS SUCCESS IN EARLY COMMUNIST HUNGARY

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x05004486 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 499-521 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

JAMES MARK

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Oral History ◽

Upward Mobility ◽

The State ◽

Central European ◽

Communist State ◽

Professional Success ◽

Large Numbers ◽

History Of ◽

The 1950S

This article explores the middle-class response to life under the early Communist state in Hungary. It is based on an oral history of the Budapest bourgeoisie, and challenges some of the dominant indigenous representations of the central European middle class as persecuted victims who were forced into ‘internal exile’ by the Stalinist state. Despite being officially discriminated against as ‘former exploiters’, large numbers achieved educational and professional success. Their skills were increasingly needed in the rapid modernization of the 1950s, and the state provided them with semi-official opportunities to remake themselves into acceptable Communist citizens. Middle-class testimony revealed how individuals constructed politically appropriate public personas to ensure their own upward mobility; they hid aspects of their pasts, created ‘class conscious’ autobiographies, and learnt how to demonstrate sufficient political loyalty. The ways in which individuals dealt with integrating into a system which officially sought to exclude them and which many disliked ideologically is then examined. In order to ‘cope with success’, respondents in this project invented new stories about themselves to justify the compromises they had made to ensure their achievements. These narratives are analysed as evidence of specifically Communist middle-class identities.

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