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Lee Congdon. Seeing Red: Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. xii, 233 pp. $40.00.

Lee Congdon. Seeing Red: Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism. Dekalb:... Lee Congdon. Seeing Red: Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge o f Communism. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. xii, 233 pp. $40.00. Eastern Europe has long been an important current in Western intellectual life; in- deed, it is from that part of the world from which we get the very term "intelligentsia". Hungary, in particular, has played a critical role over the past century, providing such important figures as Arthur Koestler, Imre Lakatos and Karl Polanyi, to name a few. Lee Congdon's work provides an overview of this cohort of Hungarians and their re- lationship to communist ideology and its imposition in their native land, but does not thoroughly deal with their ideas across intellectual time and space. Congdon notes a number of elements that bind many of these intellectuals to- gether. One is Judaism; many of these Hungarians were part of the Jewish intellectual class that was common throughout Central Europe before World War Two. In part re- lated to this is their complicated relationship to communism. Many, like Koestler, be- gan their lives as dedicated communists, only later to turn against the system as Stalin began to decimate their ranks. There are in fact two http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Lee Congdon. Seeing Red: Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge of Communism. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. xii, 233 pp. $40.00.

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Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 40 (4): 576 – Jan 1, 2006
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Lee Congdon. Seeing Red: Hungarian Intellectuals in Exile and the Challenge o f Communism. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. xii, 233 pp. $40.00. Eastern Europe has long been an important current in Western intellectual life; in- deed, it is from that part of the world from which we get the very term "intelligentsia". Hungary, in particular, has played a critical role over the past century, providing such important figures as Arthur Koestler, Imre Lakatos and Karl Polanyi, to name a few. Lee Congdon's work provides an overview of this cohort of Hungarians and their re- lationship to communist ideology and its imposition in their native land, but does not thoroughly deal with their ideas across intellectual time and space. Congdon notes a number of elements that bind many of these intellectuals to- gether. One is Judaism; many of these Hungarians were part of the Jewish intellectual class that was common throughout Central Europe before World War Two. In part re- lated to this is their complicated relationship to communism. Many, like Koestler, be- gan their lives as dedicated communists, only later to turn against the system as Stalin began to decimate their ranks. There are in fact two

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