Paul Lendvai
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Paul Lendvai was a journalist from Hungary. He wasborn in a jewish family in Budapest in 1929. Immigrating after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he became a well-known author and journalist in Austria. He was a member of the notorious communist secret police, the ÁVH (State Protection Authority) in Szombathely from around 1947.
[edit] Biography
After migrating to Vienna following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Lendvai was becoming one of the world's best-informed journalists and commentators on Eastern Europe. In his prize-winning memoir, Lendvai shows a chilling picture of ethnic hatred, political turbulence and murderous anti-Semitism which have characterized the history of 20th century Central Europe. His encounters with killers, torturers, onlookers and victims, traitors and heroes make interesting reading.
[edit] Works
- Hungary: The Art of Survival (1990)
- Blacklisted: A Journalist's Life in Central Europe
- The Bureaucracy of Truth: How Communist Governments Manage the News
- One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy originally Der Ungarnaufstand 1956: Die Revolution und ihre Folgen. (2006) (2008)
- Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat (2003)
- Das Einsame Albanien: Reportage aus dem Land der Skipetaren (1985)
