Iván Berend
Encyclopedia
Iván Tibor Berend is a Hungarian
historian
and teacher
who served as President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
from 1985 until 1990. He was a member of Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
's Central Committee between 1988 and 1989. Since 1990 he has been living in Los Angeles
and teaching at UCLA.
Major works:
Hungary
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historian
Historian
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and teacher
Teacher
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who served as President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...
from 1985 until 1990. He was a member of Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party was the ruling Marxist–Leninist party of Hungary between 1956 and 1989. It was organised from elements of the Hungarian Working People's Party during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution...
's Central Committee between 1988 and 1989. Since 1990 he has been living in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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and teaching at UCLA.
Publications
With György Ránki:- Magyarország gyáripara 1900–1914 (1955)
- Magyarország gyáripara a második világháború előtt és a háború időszakában 1933–1944 (1958)
- Magyarország a fasiszta Németország „életterében” 1933–1939 (1960)
- Közép-Kelet-Európa gazdasági fejlődése a 19–20. században (1966)
- A magyar gazdaság száz éve 1848–1944 (1973)
- Gazdaság és társadalom (1974)
- Gazdasági elmaradottság, kiutak és kudarcok a 19. századi Európában (1979)
- Európa gazdasága 1780–1914 (1987)
Major works:
- Újjáépítés és a nagytőke elleni harc Magyarországon 1945–1949 (1962)
- A szocialista gazdaság fejlődése Magyarországon (1974)
- Napjaink – a történelemben (1980)
- Válságok évtizedek (1982)
- Gazdasági útkeresés (1983)
- A magyar gazdasági reform útja (1988)
- Transition to a Market Economy at The End of the 20th Century (szerk., 1994)
- Central and Eastern Europe 1944–1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery (1996, in Hungarian with the title of Terelőúton, 1999)
- A történelem – ahogy megéltem (1997)
- Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War II. (1998)
- History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long 19th Century (2003, in Hungarian with the title of Kisiklott történelem)
- An Economic History of 20th Century Europe (2006, in Hungarian with the title of Európa gazdasága a 20. században, 2008)
- From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe Since 1973 (2009)
- History in My Life: A Memoir in Three Eras (2009)
External links
- MTI Ki Kicsoda 2009, Magyar Távirati Iroda Zrt., Budapest, 2008, 105. old.,
- Adatlap a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia honlapján
- Önéletrajz a Mindentudás Egyeteme honlapján
- Szakmai életrajz a UCLA honlapján (in English)