Read sample Follow the author Ignác Romsics Ignác RomsicsIgnác Romsics Follow From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Birth of the Third Hungarian Republic, 1988–2001 xiatu Essential reading for anyone interested

Essential reading for anyone interested in the origins and possibilities of our current global crisis

A man who has come from nothing

The coronavirus pandemic marked the first time that the Party deployed its tool kit of economic coercion on an issue directly related to the health and well-being of quite literally every person in the world

民族主义和国家主义的结合，把明治维新开启的日本现代化进程导引入军国主义的歧途。这造成了20世纪亚洲严重的人道主义灾难，也使好几代日本人增进国家现代性的成果毁于一旦。近代日本走过的弯路，值得仍在致力于国家治理现代化的发展中国家引为鉴戒。

本书对第二次世界大战进行了动态的、全球性的学术描述，尝试重构传统视角下第二次世界大战的区域与时间框架，真正破除“欧美中心论”，将区域视角放大至全球，重点包括在过往“二战”史中时常缺位的亚洲、拉丁美洲和撒哈拉以南的非洲地区的战争进程及其互相交织的政治与经济活动等，同时将传统认知中的“二战”时间框架扩展至1931—1953 年，将“二战””欧洲战场爆发前具有全球意义的区域冲突囊括在内，并将1945 年后亚洲战场的局部冲突纳入“二战”叙事框架，对世界格局进行了更加系统的学术论述，对美国霸权作了较为深刻的透视，并指明由美国主导的“二战”史叙事存在较大的缺陷，1945 年后层出不穷的地区冲突就证明了美国推动建立的以其为主导的世界秩序的失败。

Read sample Follow the author Ignác Romsics Ignác RomsicsIgnác Romsics Follow From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Birth of the Third Hungarian Republic, 1988–2001 xiatu Essential reading for anyone interestedIgnacs Romsics provides an in depth account of Hungary's history between the collapse of Communism and the re emergence of a Hungarian parlimentary republic. Drawing on the debates that have grown out of the political opposition, he focuses on the reformist efforts of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party. Romsics documents the period that brought a resurgence in mutliparty government and established a political and legal basis for the Third Hungarian