Will to Freedom - A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism

Informationen zum Autor Egon Balas is University Professor of Applied Mathematics and Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. Klappentext Will to Freedom is an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an underground resistance fighter, political prisoner, fugitive, and Communist Party official, Egon Balas charts his journey from idealistic young Communist to disenchanted dissident.Attracted by its anti-Nazi stance, Balas joined the Hungarian Communist Party in 1942, after Hungary had entered the war on Hitler's side. He helped organize work stoppages and distributed antiwar leaflets. In his memoir, he offers a compelling account first of his eventual imprisonment and ordeal under torture and then of his escape and life in hiding. Zusammenfassung As an underground resistance fighter! political prisoner! fugitive! and Communist Party official! the author charts his journey from idealistic young Communist to disenchanted dissident. He presents an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s.

Product details

• Authors: Egon Balas
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2008
• EAN: 9780815609308
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-0930-8
• No. of pages: 469
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Modern Jewish History; Modern Jewish History; Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous