György Péteri
 

PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH:
 

BOOKS
 

Effects of World War I: War Communism in Hungary ("War and Society in East Central Europe", Vol. XVI /New York: Brooklyn College Press, 1984/), 225p.

Revolutionary Twenties: Essays on International Monetary and Financial Relations After World War I (Department of History, University of Trondheim: Trondheim, 1995 ["Trondheim Studies in History", No. 9]) 204 p.

Reviews:

– by F. Hodne in Historisk Tidsskrift (Norway), vol. 76, no. 4 (1997)

– by Virág Rab in Világtörténet (Budapest), Fall-Winter 2000

Academia and State Socialism: Essays on the Political History of Academic Life in Post-1945 Hungary and Eastern Europe (Boulder, Colorado & Highland  Lakes, New Jersey: East European Monographs & Atlantic Research & Publications, Inc., 1998), 296 p. 

Reviews:

– by S. M. Meloche in HABSBURG (August 1999), accessible at H-NET

– by L. Schlosberg in  Slavic and East European Journal,  vol. 44, no. 3 (2000)

– by E. Mühle in Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Jahrgang 49, Heft 1 (2000)

– by P. Kneen in Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 79, no. 4 (2001)

– by Z. Vajda in the Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences, vol. 37, no. 1 (2001)

– by F. Argentieri in the Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 6, no. 3 (Summer 2004)

– by C. P. Loss in the Journal of Policy History, vol. 16, no. 1 (2004)

Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921-1929 (Wayne, NJ: Center for Hungarian Studies and Publications, distributed by the Columbia University Press, 2002), X + 199 p.

EDITED ESSAY COLLECTIONS: BOOKS AND THEME ISSUES IN JOURNALS

Organizer [editor] for the theme issue on Social Science under State Socialism, Minerva (London), Vol. XXXIV, no. 4.

Guest editor, theme issue, Intellectual Life and the First Crisis of State Socialism in East Central Europe, 1953-56, Contemporary European History, Vol. 6, part 3 (November 1997).

Michael David-Fox & György Péteri, eds., Academia in Upheaval: Origins, Transfers and Transformations of the Communist Academic Regime in Russia and East Central Europe (Westport, Connecticut and London: Bergin & Garvey,2000), 334 p .

Reviews:

– by I. T. Berend, The American Historical Review, Vol. 106, no. 5 (December 2001)

– by A. Byford in Europe Asia Studies, vol. 55, no. 4 (2003)

– by D. R. Weiner in Isis, vol. 93, no. 4 (2002)

Guest editor, theme issue, Patronage, Personal Networks, and the Party-State. Everyday Life in the Cultural Sphere of Communist Russia and East Central Europe, Contemporary European History , Vol. 11, part 1 (February 2002).

Guest editor, theme issue, Across and Beyond the East West Divide I: Transnational and Transsystemic Tendencies in East Central Europe's Music and Musical Life under the Communist Era, Slavonica, Vol. 10, Nr. 2 (2004)

Guest editor, theme issue, Across and Beyond the East West Divide II: Transnational and Transsystemic Tendencies in Russia and East Central Europe's Cultural Life during the Communist Era, Slavonica, Vol. 11, Nr. 1 (2005)

János Rainer & György Péteri, eds.,  Muddling Through in the Long 1960s. Ideas and Everyday Life in High Politics and the Lower Classes of Communist Hungary (PEECS, Trondheim, ["Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures & Societies", No. 16], 2005), 225 p.

György Péteri, ed., Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (University of Pittsburgh Press [Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies / Kritika Historical Studies], 2010), 330 p.

Guest editor, theme issue, Sites of Convergence - The USSR and Communist Eastern Europe at International Fairs Abroad and at Home, Journal of Contemporary History, January 2012, Vol. 47, Nr. 1

ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

"International Liquidity and the National Economy as a Factor in Hungary's Monetary Policy 1924-1931", Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 26, 1980, pp. 379-394.

"The Inflation-Proof Gold Standard: The Foreign Policy of Riksbankschefen Victor Moll and the Origins of the Swedish Ban on Gold Imports in 1924", The Journal of European Economic History, vol. 13, nr. 3 (Sept-Dec.1984), pp.635-663.

" 'Tying up a Loose End' - British Foreign Economic Strategy in 1924: TheHungarian Stabilization", Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 30 (3-4), 1984, pp. 321-351.

"Notes on the Way 'From "Socialism" to Socialism' " (review essay on Alec Nove's The Economics of Feasible Socialism), Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 6, 1985, pp. 255-260.

"Engineer Utopia: On the Position of  Technostructure in Hungary's War Communism, 1919", in: Peter Pastor, ed., Revolutions and Interventions in Hungary and Its Neighbor States, 1918-1919, (Boulder, Colorado: Social Science Monographs & Highland Lakes, New Jersey:  Atlantic Research and Publication,1988), pp 139-156 /published, with minor revisions, also in the International Studies of Management & Organization,Vol.19,Nr. 3 (Fall 1989), pp.82-102/.

"The Role of State and Market in the Regulation of Capital Imports: Hungary, 1924-1931", Revue Internationale d'Histoire de la Banque, 30-31(1985), pp. 187-213. /also published as Research report No. 14 of the Uppsala Papers in Economic History (Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 1987), 30p./.

"Academic Elite into Scientific Cadres: A Statistical Contribution to the History of Hungary's Academy of Sciences, 1945-1949", Soviet Studies, Vol.43, No. 2, 1991, pp. 281-299.

"Financial change at the sector level: the interrelationships between banking and industry in Hungary during the 1920s", in: P. L. Cottrell, Håkan Lindgren, and Alice Teichova, eds., European Industry and Banking Between the Wars: A Review of Bank-Industry Relations (London: Leicester University Press, 1992), pp. 31-42.

"Central Bank Diplomacy: Montagu Norman and Central Europe's Monetary Reconstruction after World War I", Contemporary European History, vol. I, no. 3 (1992), pp. 239-264.

"The Politics of Statistical Information and Economic Research in Communist Hungary, 1949-1956", Contemporary European History, Vol. 2, Part 2 (July 1993), pp. 149-167.

"'Scientists versus Scholars': The Prelude to Communist Takeover in Hungarian Science, 1945-1947", Minerva [London], Vol. XXXI, No. 3 (Autumn 1993), pp. 291-325.

"Modernity versus Democracy: The Politics of Albert Szent-Györgyi, 1945-47", in: Tibor Frank, ed., Culture and Society in Early 20th Century Hungary, Hungarian Studies, Vol. 9, Nr. 1-2 (1994), pp. 181-198.

"Reserve and Vehicle Currencies in the Financial Structures of Hungary, 1924-1931", The Journal of European Economic History, Vol. 22, Nr. 2 (Fall 1993), pp. 339-346.

"On the Legacy of State Socialism in Academia", Minerva (London), Vol. XXXIII, No 4 (Winter 1995), pp. 305-324

"Controlling the Field of Academic Economics: Hungary, 1953-1976", Minerva, vol. XXXIV, Nr. 4 (Winter 1996), pp. 367-380.

"New Course Economics: The Field of Economic Research in Hungary after Stalin, 1953-1956", Contemporary European History, Vol. 6, part 3 (November 1997) pp. 295-327.

«Rakosi and the Jews», Review of Andrew Handler and SusanV. Meschel, eds, Red Star, Blue Star: The Lives and Times of Jewish Students in Communist Hungary, 1948-1956, HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews, May, 1998.URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=7764896202396

"Science between Two Worlds. Foreign 'Models' and Hungary's Academia, 1945-1949", Chapter 7 in: Michael David-Fox & György Péteri, eds., Academia in Upheaval: Origins, Transfers, and Transformations of the Communist Academic Regime in Russia and East Central Europe (Bergin & Garvey, 2000), pp. 203-222.

"Between Empire and Nation-State: Comments on the Pathology of State Formation in Eastern Europe during the 'Short Twentieth Century'", Contemporary European History , Vol. 9, Part 3 (November 2000), pp. 367-384 .

"Purge and Patronage: Kádár’s Counterrevolution and the Field of Economic Research in Hungary, 1957-58", in: Patronage, Personal Networks, and the Party-State. Everyday Life in theCultural Sphere of Communist Russia and East Central Europe, theme issue edited by György Péteri, Contemporary European History , Vol. 11, part 1 (February 2002)

"Nylon Curtain -- Transnational And Transsystemic Tendencies in The Cultural Life Of State-Socialist Russia And East-Central Europe", Slavonica, Vol. 10, Nr. 2 (2004), pp. 113-123.

"Before the Schism: Revisiting György Lukács's  'Plebeian Democracy' in a Global Perspective", in:  Ragnar Björk & Alf W Johansson, eds.,  Samtidshistoria och politik. Vänbok till Karl Molin (Stockholm: Hjalmarson & Högberg, 2004), pp. 357-390.

"From Purge to Scandal: The MEGÉV-affair and the changing political style in communist Hungary", in:  János Rainer & György Péteri, eds.,  Muddling Through in the Long 1960s. Ideas and Everyday Life in High Politics and the Lower Classes of Communist Hungary (PEECS, Trondheim, ["Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures & Societies", No. 16], 2005), pp. 83-108.

"The Communist Idea of the University: An Essay Inspired by the Hungarian Experience", in: John Connelly and Michael Grüttner, eds., Universities under Dictatorship (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005), pp. 139-166.

"The Occident Within -- or the Drive for Exceptionalism and Modernity", Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Volume 9, Number 4, Fall 2008, pp. 929-937.

"Fellowships and grants" -- entry in: Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier, eds., The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Parlgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 387-388

"Streetcars of desire: cars and automobilism in communist Hungary (1958-1970)", Social History Volume 34, Number 1, February 2009, pp. 1-28.

"The Oblique Coordinate Systems of Modern Identity", Introductory essay to György Péteri, ed., Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (University of Pittsburgh Press [Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies / Kritika Historical Studies], 2010), pp. 1-12.

"Nomenklatura with Smoking Guns: Hunting in Communist Hungary's Party-State Elite", Chapter 12 in: David Crowley and Susan E. Reid, eds., Pleasures in Socialism. Leisure and Luxury in the Bloc (Evanston, IL.: Northwestern University Press, 2010), pp. 311-343.

"Alternative Modernity? Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956-1980" in: Lewis Siegelbaum, ed., The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2011),  pp. 47-68.

"Sites of Convergence: The USSR and Communist Eastern Europe at International Fairs Abroad and at Hom" Journal of Contemporary History, January 2012, Vol. 47, Nr. 1, pp. 3-12.

"Transsystemic Fantasies: Counterrevolutionary Hungary at Brussels’ Expo ‘58", Journal of Contemporary History, January 2012, Vol. 47, Nr, 1, pp. 137-160.

PUBLICATIONS IN OTHER LANGUAGES:

A Magyar Tanácsköztársaság iparirányítási rendszere (The System of Industrial Management of the Hungarian Soviet Republic,1919, /Budapest. Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, 1979), 287 p.

"A társadalmasítás korlátai 1919-ben", Történelmi Szemle, 1977/3-4, (The Limits of Socialization, 1919), pp. 593-611.

"A 'tudományos üzemvezetés' és a munkásellenörzés konfliktusa 1919-ben", Történelmi Szemle, 1979/1, (The Conflict between 'Scientific Factory Management' and Workers' Control).

"Adalék 1919 iparpolitikájához", in: Béla Köpeczy,ed., A magyar tanácsköztársaság 60. évfordulója , Tudományos ülésszak,1979. március 6-7., (Budapest, Akadémiai  Kiadó, 1980), (On the Industrial Policies of the 1919 Revolution), pp.253-259.

"Le radici della nuova egemonia", Ungheria oggi, n. 13/14, Iuglio-dicembre 1979, pp. 4-20.

"Születésnapi ajándék Sztálinnak: Vázlat a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia államosításának történetéhez 1945-1949" (Birthday Present to Stalin: Outline to the History of Sovietization of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Századvég (Budapest), 1989, Nr 1-2, pp. 18-35.

"Centralbankers International: Rivalisering och kooperation mellan centralbanker i början av 1920-talet", Pecunia 1 (Skrifter i mynt- och penninghistoriska ämnen utgivna av Kungliga Myntkabinettet, Stockholm, 1990), pp. 43-58.

"A Magyar Központi Statisztikai Hivatal és az empiricista frontáttörés"(TheCentral Buro of Statistics and the Empiricist Breakthrough [on statistics andeconomic research in Hungary in the nineteenfifities]), Statisztikai Szemle , vol. 70, no. 10 (October1992), pp. 834-839.

Chapters 1-2 in Part 6 of G. Kövér, V. Pécsi, G. Péteri, A. Pogány, and L. Soós, A Magyar Nemzeti Bank története ,Vol. I: Az Osztrák Nemzeti Banktól a Magyar Nemzeti Bankig 1816-1924, (The History of the Hungarian National Bank, Vol. I: From theAustrian to the Hungarian National Bank 1816-1924) edited by T. Bácskai (Budapest: Közgazdasági & Jogi Könyvkiadó,1993, pp. 501-538.

«A fordulat a magyar közgazdaságtudományban» [The Break in Hungarian Economic Research], in: Éva Standeisky, ed.,  A fordulat évei, 1947-1949. Politika, ideológia és müvészet a pártállam születésének idöszakában (Budapest: 1956-os Intézet, 1998),   pp. 185-201.
 
"Pirruszi gyözelem. A "MEGÉV"-ügy és a politikai stílus változása a hosszú hatvanas években" (From Purge to Scandal: The MEGÉV-affair and the changing political style in communist Hungary), in:  János M. Rainer, ed., "Hatvanas évek" Magyarországon. Tanulmányok (Budapest: 1956-os Intézet, 2004),  pp. 318-336.

"Az autós a ludas. Az automobilizmus magyarországi recepciójának történetéhez az 1960-as években" (You should blame the driver! Towards a history of the reception of automobilism in Hungary during the long 1960s), in Károly Halmos et al., eds., A felhalmozás míve. Történeti tanulmányok Kövér György tiszteletére (Budapest: Századvég Kiadó 2009) pp. 302-315.