Temesvár

Temesvár

Author: Arpad Szoczi

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 147597888X

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Egyre kritikusábbá vált a helyzete Tokés Lászlónak, a legismertebb romániai ellenzékinek. A temesvári református lelkész hétrol hétre népes gyülekezet elott beszélt az országban tapasztalható elviselhetetlen életkörülményekrol és a rettegett román titkosrendorség, a Securitate terrorjáról. A diktatúrával való ilyen nyílt szembeszegülés példa nélküli volt Romániában. A renitenst sürgosen el kellett hallgattatni. Ám a hatalomnak elovigyázatosnak kellett lennie, hiszen nyugaton is figyelemmel követték a lelkipásztor sorsát. Az események drámai fordulatot vettek, amikor egy észak-amerikai magyar emigráns csoport két kanadait küldött Temesvárra, hogy videóinterjút készítsenek Tokéssel. A dátum 1989. március 20. A titokban leforgatott interjúnak végzetes következményei lettek – mind a lelkész, mind az egész ország számára.


Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880–1914

Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire, 1880–1914

Author: Catherine Horel

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2023-09-15

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9633862906

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Catherine Horel has undertaken a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy as represented in twelve cities: Arad, Bratislava, Brno, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Oradea, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Subotica, Timișoara, Trieste, and Zagreb. By purposely selecting these cities, the author aims to counter the disproportionate attention that the largest cities in the empire receive. With a focus on the aspects of everyday life faced by the city inhabitants (associations, schools, economy, and municipal politics) the book avoids any idealization of the monarchy as a paradise of peaceful multiculturalism, and also avoids exaggerating conflicts. The author claims that the world of the Habsburg cities was a dynamic space where many models coexisted and created vitality, emulation, and conflict. Modernization brought about the dissolution of old structures, but also mobility, the progress of education, the explosion of associative life, and constantly growing cultural offerings.


Gyula Breyer

Gyula Breyer

Author: Jimmy Adams

Publisher: New In Chess

Published: 2017-09-13

Total Pages: 877

ISBN-13: 9056917250

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Although his career lasted barely ten years, Gyula Breyer (1893-1921) was a highly successful and imaginative chess player. He won the championship of his native country Hungary as a teenager and achieved remarkable results against the leading players of his day. But first and foremost, Breyer was a revolutionary in his chess thinking. He promoted the idea of dynamic chess and formulated many of the Hypermodern concepts, long before others started their investigations. After his death, however, he was omitted from most of the chess history books, or relegated to a one line reference. Today he is only known for the Breyer variation, an ever popular defence against the Ruy Lopez. Jimmy Adams has unlocked Breyer’s legacy from the archives and made it accessible to the chess world at large, with translations from Hungarian into English. This monumental book presents 242 of his games, annotated by Breyer himself and many others. It features a large number of articles, columns and fragments from newspapers, magazines and books, sparkling with chess and literary wit. The majority appear in English for the first time – and indeed in any language other than Hungarian. By piecing together this material in chronological order, Jimmy Adams has constructed a mesmerizing biography, covering Gyula Breyer’s intense, unconventional and ultimately tragic life. Also included is a collection of his chess problems, some of which are truly amazing.


Ottomans, Hungarians, and Habsburgs in Central Europe

Ottomans, Hungarians, and Habsburgs in Central Europe

Author: Pál Fodor

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9789004119079

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This unique, comparative description of the Hungarian, Habsburg, and Ottoman military frontiers in the fifteenth-seventeenth centuries provides fascinating reading to those interested in military history. It concentrates on the administration, finance, manpower problems, and aspects of the military revolution in the marches.


A Time for Spies

A Time for Spies

Author: William E. Duff

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780826513526

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Former FBI Special Agent William E. Duff details the development of Theodore Stephanovich Mally (Soviet intelligence officer) as a spy including the historical and psychological factors that influenced and motivated him.


Divide, Provide, and Rule

Divide, Provide, and Rule

Author: Susan Zimmermann

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 6155053197

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"English translation c2011, John Harbord."