Book Review: The Workers’ State: Industrial Labor and the Making of Socialist Hungary, 1944-1958
Author: Mark Pittaway Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book by Mark Pittaway was published posthumously in 2012, with the efforts of his friend Nigel Swain who has written the Foreword. It unearths new findings on the roles that labor unions and other working-class structures played to effect change in Hungary in the face of their suppression by the state and foreign forces in and around the 16-year period between 1944 and 1958. Pittaway was a historian of socialism in Eastern Europe, particularly on Hungary, until he passed away after a heart attack at...
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