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Istvan Deak
Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History
Columbia University |
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Biography
Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History, specializes in the political and social history of Central and East Central Europe. His publications include, Weimar Germany's
Left-wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the "Weltbuhne" and
Its Circle (The University of California Press, 1968); The Lawful Revolution:
Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849 (Columbia
University Press, 1979),
for which he received the Lionel Trilling Book Award of Columbia
College, and
which also appeared in German and Hungarian, as well as Beyond Nationalism: A
Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918
(Oxford
University Press, 1990), which
received, among other things, the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize of the
American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, and which also appeared in German,
Hungarian, and Italian. His most recent
publication is Essays on
Hitler's Europe (University
of Nebraska Press, 2001), which appeared also in Hungarian. He edited
and
partly wrote, together with Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt, The Politics of
Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath (Princeton
University
Press, 2000).
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