Contemporary Hungarian society : social changes in Hungary from late state socialism / Tibor Valuch.

Author
Valuch, Tibor [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
  • ©2025
Description
xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Subject(s)
Series
Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe [More in this series]
Summary note
"This book examines social change in Hungary, commencing with the period of late-stage socialism, the country's immediate post-communist transition, its subsequent consolidation and the emergence of authoritarian leadership since 2010. The volume seeks to employ a longitudinal and comparative perspective and provides comparison to other central and east European states that emerged from state socialism. The Hungarian regime change of 1989-1990 led to previously unimaginable social and economic transition. In recent decades, regime change and socio-economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe has produced a library of literature, and transition studies has periodically become a discipline in its own right. The author uses an interdisciplinary approach - drawing from social history, sociology, statistics and contemporary history - in order to understand and analyse social change in all its complexity. The book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, social scientists, historians, experts and those interested in Hungarian and Central and Eastern European history and social change"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Approaches to the regime change, post-communism and illiberalism
  • concepts and interpretations
  • Demographic changes shift in Hungarian society, 1980-2020
  • The spatial distribution of Hungarian society
  • Minority groups and ethnicities, from within and beyond the borders of Hungary
  • Social stratification
  • mobility and social structure during the post-communist transition and in the illiberal system
  • Old, new and reviving social groups, from the post-communist transition to the illiberal system
  • Society and politics during the post-communist transition, the early 21st century, and under illiberalism
  • Social relations and situations
  • Unique aspects of the transformation of Hungarian society between 1980 and 2020
  • from the perspective of a Central and Eastrn European comparison.
ISBN
  • 9781032351636 (hardcover)
  • 1032351632 (hardcover)
  • 9781032351650 (paperback)
  • 1032351659 (paperback)
LCCN
2024023985
OCLC
1443642835
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