Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1986 (14. évfolyam, 47-50. szám)

1986 / 47-48. szám

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS (Continued)

York: Richard D. Irwin, 1985) (fifth edition); “Economic Reform in Hungary: From Central Planning to Regulated Market.” In East European Economies: Slow Growth in the 1980s Washington: U. S. GPO, 1985). Compendium of Papers Submitted to the Joint Economic Committee, U. S. Congress; “Hungary’s Balance of Payments Crisis and Response, 1978-1984.” In East European Economies: Slow Growth in the 1980s (cited above). The HSN plans to review these items in forthcoming issues.

C. Timothy McKeown, (Dept, of Anthropology, Northwestern U., 2006 Sheridan, Evanston, IL 60201) is planning field research in Hungary to investigate the relationship between cultural factors and variation planning prediction. He hypothesizes that persons of different cultural traditions predict differently, and that these differences are related to the way in which time is categorized.

Miklós Kontra (Nyelvtudoma'nyi Intézet, HAS, Budapest I, Szentháromság utca 2. Hungary 1250). Data gathered for the Project on Hungarian-American Bilingualism (for earlier description see HSN no. 43/44, page 11) was keypunched for computer use. The computerized collection contains 14 interviews with old-time immigrants, 10 with post 1956 immigrants, and 16 with American-born informants. Throughout the corpus of data deviances from Standard Hungarian in vocabulary, grammar, intonation, etc. are coded systematically. Search programs for lexical deviances, word order problems, code-switching, etc. are currently being developed.

Karoly Nagy (Middlesex County College, Woodbridge Avenue, CN-61, Edison NJ 08818) is working on a translation and publication of the writings of István Bibó (1911-1979). Bibo is considered one of the most outstanding and creative social/political theorists of modern Hungary. His analysis of nationalism, ethnic antagonism, antisemitism, and the role of superpowers in the lives of the peoples in East Central Europe culminates in his ideal: the “third road” synthesis encompassing the most humane and democratic practices of both, individualism and collectivism, without their antidemocratic extremes.

Andrew Gross, (Cleveland State U., Euclid Avenue at East 24th Street, Cleveland, OH 44115) is working on two studies: one crosscultural study of industrial buying, and another study of water pollution control including marketing implications.

Julius Varsányi (Faculty of Law, U. of Adelaide, Adelaide 5000, Australia) is preparing a paper on “Western International Law —Eastern Human Rights?” for publication later this year.

Miklós Kontra is preparing a Hungarian picture dictionarytor Hungarian children, to be published by Tankönyvkiadó in 1987. Other contributors are: Ruth G. Biro, Zsófia T. Radnai.

Martha Pereszlenyi-Pinter (Ohio State U., Columbus, OH 43210), in cooperation with Julianna Ludanyi (Ohio Northern U., Ada, OH 45810) is in the process of writing manuals of individualized instruction in Hungarian. She has six courses available, beginning through advanced, with two more projected by the end of 1986. The materials were developed with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Security Agency, and were done through the Center of Slavic and East European Center of the Ohio State U. under the direction of Leon I. Warog.

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Thomas Spira (U. of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada CIA 4P3) submitted a summary of his recent articles and those under preparation, most of them dealing with the German (Swabian) problem of Hungary as it evolved in the interwar period, concluding with the expulsion of a large number of Germans after World War II. The report is so comprehensive that we could not improve its scope and content for our purposes, so we decided to reprint it in its entirety:

“The Radicalization of Hungary’s Swabian Minority after 1935,” Hungarian Studies Review, 9:1 (Spring 1984) 9-22. Between 1918 and 1935, Hungary tried to appease the Swabians by granting minor cultural concessions. After 1935, moderate Swabians gradually lost out to pro-Nazi extremists. Thereafter, the government found it increasingly more difficult to fulfill the völkisch Swabians’ autonomist demands, the more so because the Third Reich’s support of these zealots threatened to undermine Hungarian national security.

“The Volksdeutsche Kameradschaft and the Swabian Demands on the Eve of World War II,” East Central Europe 12:2 (1985) 146-163. In 1938, the VDK, the Nazi-oriented secessionist offshoot of the pro-government moderates, the UDV, demanded fundamental modification of the German minority’s position in Hungarian society, including reform of Hungary's German minority school system and recognition of the Swabians as an autonomous corporate body. The völkisch Swabians’ support by Germany complicated the Magyar- Swabian controversy and injected an irreconcilable irritant in Swabian-Hungarian relations.

“Worlds Apart: The Swabian Expulsion from Hungary after World War II,” Nationalities Papers 13:2 (Fall 1985) 188-197. From 1918 until the end of World War II, Hungary’s Swabians and the Hungarian government were locked in ceaseless controversy involving German minority rights and Hungarian national security. These misunderstandings were basic, and defied solution through dialogue, mutual concessions or compromise.

“Nation Versus State: The Swabian Volksbund and Hungarian Public Opinion in Early 1939,” Ungarn Jahrbuch (Munich), scheduled to appear in the next volume (1986?). In November 1938, when prime minister Bela Imredy’s government granted the VDK permission to assume autonomous control over Hungary’s Swabian minority, Magyar opposition caused the agreement to be shelved. In April 1939, growing Swabian exasperation and the Third Reich’s diplomatic pressure compelled the government to restore the statute. However, Swabian autonomy was still far from having been achieved.

“The German-Hungarian-Swabian Triangle and the Teleki Regime on the Eve of World War II,” paper presented at a symposium on “Language and Nation," Krakow, Poland, September 1984, to be published as part of Colloquium by Krakow University Press in 1986. In 1939 an antagonistic relationship linked the Hungarian government and Magyar public with the völkisch Swabians and their Third Reich supporters. The controversy featured a “struggle of languages” cloaked in ideological garb, and partially successful attempts by prime minister Count Pal Teleki to delay Germany’s eastward expansion.

“The Ja'szi Plan for an ‘Eastern Switzerland’ and the Reactions of Hungary’s Swabians;” paper presented at Oberlin College symposium on the Oscar Jászi Memorial Conference,

NO. 47-46, SPRING-SUMMER 1986 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER