Background
Berend, Ivan Tibor was born on December 11, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to United States, 1990. Son of Mihaly and Elvira Berend.
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Professor Berend presents a comprehensive inside account of Hungary's economic reforms since the 1950s. Working from Communist Party archives, which have hitherto partially remained closed to scholars, Berend situates the history of these economic reforms within their political context, looking in particular at the role of the Soviet Union. He examines the theoretical background to reform, the obstacles that arose during implementation and the gradual realisation that minor reforms of the old system could no longer work. The Hungarian Economic Reforms 1953-1988 comes at a time when many centrally planned economies are examining their performance and structure and seeking suitable forms of change. The Hungarian reforms have attracted those countries wishing to rid themselves of their Stalinist command economies. Thus the book indirectly sheds light upon Chinese economic reforms and on Gorbachev's Soviet perestroika. It will be of interest to specialists and students of East European studies, with special reference to the EMEA, planned economies and economic reform.
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Only by understanding Central and Eastern Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century can we hope to make sense of the conflicts and crises that have followed World War II and, after that, the collapse of Soviet-controlled state socialism. Ivan Berend looks closely at the fateful decades preceding World War II and at twelve countries whose absence from the roster of major players was enough in itself, he says, to precipitate much of the turmoil. As waves of modernization swept over Europe, the less developed countries on the periphery tried with little or no success to imitate Western capitalism and liberalism. Instead they remained, as Berend shows, rural, agrarian societies notable for the tenacious survival of feudal and aristocratic institutions. In that context of frustration and disappointment, rebellion was inevitable. Berend leads the reader skillfully through the maze of social, cultural, economic, and political changes in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and the Soviet Union, showing how every path ended in dictatorship and despotism by the start of World War II.
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historian university professor
Berend, Ivan Tibor was born on December 11, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to United States, 1990. Son of Mihaly and Elvira Berend.
Degree in Economics, Budapest School of Economics, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy in History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1958. Degree (honorary), Glasgow University, Scotland, 1990.
Assistant professor Karl Marx University of Economics (now Budapest U Economic Sciences), Budapest, 1953-1957. Associate professor School of Economics, 1957-1964, professor, 1964-1991. Professor history University of California at Los Angeles, since 1991.
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He was a member of Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party's Central Committee between 1988 and 1989.
Member British Academy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (president 1985-1990), International Committee History Sciences (president 1995-1900).
Married Katalin Radics. Children: Zsuzsa, Nora.