title: The Spirit of Hungary : A Panorama of Hungarian History and Culture (Third Edition)
author: Stephen Sisa
description: (Selected as a resource for further study of Hungarian history) -- <i>Encyclopedia Britannica, 1999</i><br /><br />Most readable and popular English-language survey of Hungarian history and civilization. -- <i>Guide to Historical Literature, American Historical Association, Oxford University Press, 1999</i><br /><br />Sisa's broad historical survey of the Hungarian people, from preconquest days to 1990 (publisher's note: 3rd Edition extends to 1995) is rich in ethnographic, cultural, and biographical detail...All those who want to get a feel for the spirit, the "soul" of these remarkable people will be delighted with this handsome, smoothly written, richly illustrated volume. -- <i>History: Reviews of New Books, Winter, 1992</i>
zlib_text: INSTITUTE FOR
  WORLD ECONOMICS
  HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
  W o r k i n g   P a p e r s
  No. 109                                                               June 2000
  Éva Ehrlich and Gábor Révész
  Coming in from the Cold.
  The Hungarian Economy in the 20th Century
  The publication has been made possible by courtesy of the periodical
  Hungarian Quarterly
  1014 Budapest, Orszagház u. 30.
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  SUMMARY
  Hungary had to pay an enormous price for
  returning to the European mainstream. The
  output of the economy (calculated in the
  size of the GDP) reached the level preceding
  the change of the system only in 1999, al-
  though with a significantly more modern
  make-up. During the last two decades of the
  20th century, Hungary – much like the other
  East and Central European countries – must
  have missed a potential growth of some 40
  or 50 per cent which, from a historical
  perspective, may be regarded as a loss due
  to the long period of disintegrat