Contemporary Hungarian Society: Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism (Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe)

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 socioeconomic transition in Central and Eastern Europe have 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 scie