Hungarian Borderlands: From the Habsburg Empire to the Axis Alliance, the Warsaw Pact, and the European Union

Preface......Page 10
State of Flux: Hungarian Borders, 1914–1945......Page 14
The Incredible Lightness of Borders......Page 16
The Slav Corridor and the Treaty of Paris......Page 21
The New Austrian Border......Page 24
Marking Turf......Page 27
The Loss of Transylvania......Page 29
A Hungarian Border Force......Page 31
Hegyeshalom, Gateway to the West......Page 32
Change in the Air......Page 35
Felvidék (Northern Hungary)......Page 39
Kárpátalja (Trans-Carpathian Ukraine)......Page 44
Erdély (Transylvania)......Page 45
Délvidék (Southern Hungary)......Page 47
Occupation, Defeat and Contraction......Page 50
Bordering on Insanity: Hungarian Borders 1945–1989......Page 56
Before the Iron Curtain......Page 58
The Stalin Era......Page 63
The Czech Approach......Page 64
Emergence of a Hungarian System......Page 65
The First Barrier System......Page 71
1956: Mine Removal and Revolution......Page 83
Developments in Germany and Austria......Page 86
Resealing the Border......Page 89
Electric Signal Wire......Page 91
Paper Wall......Page 92
Border Anxieties......Page 95
Reconsidering the Signal Wire......Page 97
Many Small Steps......Page 98
A Picnic......Page 105
9/11 and its Aftermath......Page 113
Reversal: Hungarian Borders from 1989......Page 118
The Emergence of a New Europe......Page 120
A Dramatic Turnabout......Page 132
Joining Schengenland......Page 137
Austrian Unease......Page 141
The Hungarian-Slovakian Border......Page 144
Inside Schengenland......Page 149
‘Hello, Neighbour!’......Page 150
Monuments and Museums......Page 151
Remembering the Picnic......Page 154
Borderland Enterprise......Page 159
A Detention Camp for the Borderland?......Page 165
Border Crossings Transformed......Page 167
Revising Border-Guard History......Page 169
Credit for the Change......Page 172
Beyond Schengenland......Page 174
Migrants via Ukraine......Page 175
Local Cross-Border Traffic......Page 180
The Southern Route......Page 181
Croatia and Romania......Page 188
The Complexity of Barriers......Page 190
FRONTEX and the European Neighbourhood Policy......Page 197
Context and Comparison......Page 201
Conclusion......Page 205
Notes......Page 207
Terms and Phrases......Page 244
Place Names......Page 245
Bibliography......Page 247
Index......Page 265