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Dealing with Dictators explores America’s Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country’s international interests. During this period, US policies were a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and economic penetration, and coercive diplomacy. Through careful examination of American and Hungarian sources, László Borhi assesses why some policies toward Hungary achieved their goals while others were not successful. When George H. W. Bush exclaimed to Mikhail Gorbachev on the day the Soviet Union collapsed, "Together we liberated Eastern Europe and unified Germany," he was hardly doing justice to the complicated history of the era. The story of the process by which the transition from Soviet satellite to independent state occurred in Hungary sheds light on the dynamics of systemic change in international politics at the end of the Cold War. ** Review "In the voluminous secondary literature of the Cold War, Borhi has found important new ground. Borhi’s research in the American and Hungarian archives is thorough, [and] impressively, he has succeeded in placing Hungarian-American relations within th

Author

László Borhi, Jason Vincz

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253019394

Subjects

Political Science, History, Language Learning

Rating

3.5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14