Background
Deak, Istvan was born on May 11, 1926 in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1956, naturalized, 1962. Son of Istvan and Anna (Timar) Deak.
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Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians 1848-1849
( Hungary's War of Independence was the bloodiest conflic...)
Hungary's War of Independence was the bloodiest conflict of the European revolutionary era, exciting nationalist passions that burn hot till this day. The story of this dramatic time unfolds through the towering personality of Louis Kossuth--a principal actor in the dramatic events. He and his fellow noblemen sized the opportunity offered by the continent's upheavals to restore Hungary's sovereignty under the Habsburg Crown. They introduced many administrative, social, and economic reforms...only to run into the opposition of many of the country's most powerful forces. In 1949, Kossuth fled--never to return home again.
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Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918
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In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditions for social, economic, and cultural progress in a vast area inhabited by eleven major nationalities and almost as many confessional groups. This study investigates the social origin, education, training, code of honor, lifestyle, and political role of the Habsburg officers. Simultaneously conservative and liberal, the officer corps, originally composed mainly of noblemen, willingly coopted thousands of commoners--among them an extraordinary number of Jews. Even during World War I, the army and its officers endured, surviving the dissolution of the state in October 1918, if only by a few days. The end of the multinational Habsburg army also marked the end of confessional and ethnic tolerance in Central and East Central Europe.
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(The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath) Author: Istvan Deak published on (April, 2000)
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Istvan Deak
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Istvan Deak, Hungarian Historian, educator. Recipient Lionel Trilling Book award Columbia University, 1979; German Academy exchange fellow, 1960-1961; Guggenheim fellow, 1970-1971; Fulbright-Hays travel fellow, 1973, 84-85; fellow Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, 1985. Member Hungarian Academy Sciences, American History Association, American Association Advancement Slavic Studies (Wayne S. Vuchinich Book prize).
Education
He was educated at a Catholic gymnasium (high school) in Budapest and began his university studies in 1945 at the University of Budapest. He then studied history at the Sorbonne in Paris and worked as a journalist in France and for Radio Free Europe in West Germany. In 1956, unable to gain residence in France, he settled in New York City where he studied modern European history at Columbia University under Fritz Stern.
Career
His studies were disrupted by the war and postwar chaos, and he left Hungary in 1948, following the communist takeover. He obtained his doctorate in 1964 and spent the next 33 years teaching at Columbia. He was the Director of Columbia"s Institute on East Central Europe between 1968 and 1979.
Deák has written extensively on eastern and central European history and politics.
He edited and partly wrote, together with January T. Gross and Tony Judt, The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World World War II and Its Aftermath (2000). His most recent work is The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution during World World War II (2015).
He has also written extensively for the New York Review of Books and other periodicals. In 1964 Deák was able to visit Hungary for the first time since his departure, and thereafter he regularly attended academic conferences in Hungary and worked to re-establish links between American and Hungarian historians.
In 1990, following the fall of the communist regime, he was elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He retired from teaching in 1997 and was later a visiting professor at Stanford University. He has continued to publish on European history, particularly issues relating to the Holocaust.
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Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians 1848-1849
( Hungary's War of Independence was the bloodiest conflic...)
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Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918
(In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished e...)
- Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 1st edition by Deak, Istvan (1990) Hardcover
- (The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath) Author: Istvan Deak published on (April, 2000)
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Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians 1848-1849
Politics
His publications include Weimar Germany"s Left-wing Intellectuals (1968). The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849 (1979). Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 (1990).
And Essays on Hitler"s Europe (2001).
Membership
Member Hungarian Academy of Sciences, American History Association, American Association Advancement Slavic Studies (Wayne S. Vuchinich Book prize).
Connections
Married Gloria Gilda Alfano, July 4, 1959. 1 daughter, Eva.
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1948
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1945 - 1956
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1962 - 1963
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Recipient Lionel Trilling Book award Columbia University, 1979 George Washington award Hungarian-American Association, 1999. German Academy Exchange fellow, 1960-1961. Guggenheim fellow, 1970-1971. Fulbright-Hays travel fellow, 1973, 84-85. Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, 1985.Recipient Lionel Trilling Book award Columbia University, 1979 George Washington award Hungarian-American Association, 1999. German Academy Exchange fellow, 1960-1961. Guggenheim fellow, 1970-1971.
Fulbright-Hays travel fellow, 1973, 84-85. Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, 1985.