Hungarian Spectrum
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Hungarian Spectrum was a daily blog from 2007 to 2021, covering current political and social developments in Hungary. Created in 2007 by historian Eva S. Balogh,{{Cite web |last=Novak |first=-Benjamin |date=2014-11-07 |title=Meet Hungarian Spectrum's Éva Balogh |url=https://budapestbeacon.com/meet-hungarian-spectrums-eva-balogh/ |access-date= |website=The Budapest Beacon |language=en-US}}[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=%22Eva+S.+Balogh%22&btnG= Eva S. Balogh Publications] on Google Scholar. it came to an end with her death, on November 30, 2021.{{Cite web |last=N. |first=Steve |date=2021-11-30 |title=Popular Blogger on Hungarian Affairs Eva S. Balogh Passes Away |url=https://hungarianpolitics.com/2021/11/30/popular-blogger-on-hungarian-affairs-eva-s-balogh-passes-away/ |access-date= |website=Hungarian Politics |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Adam |first=Christopher |date=2021-12-01 |title=Remembering Éva Balogh (1936–2021) |url=https://hungarianfreepress.com/2021/12/01/remembering-eva-balogh-1936-2021/ |access-date= |website=Hungarian Free Press |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=30 November 2021 |title=Elhunyt Balogh S. Éva |url=https://mandiner.hu/cikk/20211130_kulfold_halalhir_balogh_s_eva |access-date= |website=Mandiner |language=hu}}
History
Hungarian Spectrum was published daily, seven days a week, starting June 27, 2007.Archives of Hungarian Spectrum http://hungarianspectrum.org/7797-2/ It has been permanently archived in the Library of Congress as of 2013 where it remains available online,"Hungarian Spectrum: Reflections on politics, economics, and culture" Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0009079/ as well as in the Blinken Open Society Archives."Hungarian Spectrum Is Now Archived at Blinken OSA" Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives https://www.osaarchivum.org/press-room/announcements/hungarian-spectrum-is-now-archived-at-blinken-osa Balogh, who specialized in interwar Hungarian history,{{cite journal |last1=Balogh |first1=E. S. |year=1976 |title=István Friedrich and the Hungarian Coup d'Etat of 1919: A Reevaluation |journal=Slavic Review |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=269–286 |doi=10.2307/2494593 |jstor=2494593 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Balogh |first1=E. S. |year=1983 |title=Peaceful Revision: The Diplomatic Road to War |journal=Hungarian Studies Review |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=43–51 |url=http://efolyoirat.oszk.hu/00000/00010/00008/pdf/HSR_1983_1_043-051.pdf }}{{cite journal |last1=Balogh |first1=E. S. |year=1977 |title=Power Struggle in Hungary: Analysis in Post-war Domestic Politics August–November 1919 |journal=Canadian-American Review of Hungarian Studies |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=3–22 |url=http://epa.uz.ua/01900/01994/00006/pdf/CARHS_1977_1_03-23.pdf }}{{cite journal |last1=Balogh |first1=Eva S. |title=The Hungarian Social Démocratic Centre and the Fall of Béla Kun |journal=Canadian Slavonic Papers |date=14 April 2015 |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=15–35 |jstor=40867035 |id={{ProQuest|1307696225}} |doi=10.1080/00085006.1976.11091436 }} researched and wrote most of the articles. Based on primary sources in Hungarian, German and English, the articles analyzed current developments in Hungary for the nonspecialist reader from a historian's perspective.
The blog also occasionally included articles written by guest scholars such as Kim Lane Scheppele,"Hungary and the State of American Democracy" Kim Lane Scheppele http://hungarianspectrum.org/2015/05/21/kim-lane-scheppele-hungary-and-the-state-of-american-democracy/ Johanna Laakso,"Knowledge Is Power?"Johanna Laakso https://hungarianspectrum.org/2018/04/26/johanna-laakso-knowledge-is-power/ Charles GatiCharles Gati "The Mask is Off".
https://hungarianspectrum.org/2014/08/08/charles-gati-the-mask-is-off/ and Randolph L. Braham."The Assault on the Historical Memory of the Holocaust" Randolph L. Braham https://hungarianspectrum.org/2014/03/22/randolph-l-braham-the-assault-on-the-historical-memory-of-the-holocaust/
Hungarian Spectrum was supported by voluntary donations from its readers. Businessman George Soros, winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Courage in April 2019, donated his prize money to Hungarian Spectrum, describing it as a site that "renders an important service by exposing to the world what Prime Minister Orban is telling his own people.""Soros accepts Ridenhour Prize for Courage in an age of lies" The Editors, The Lens, April 17, 2019 https://thelensnola.org/2019/04/17/soros-accepts-ridenhour-prize-for-courage-in-an-age-of-lies/
Following the death of Balogh, Hungarian Spectrum ceased publications.
Political orientation
Eva S. Balogh often wrote entries highly critical of the current government in power in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán. She was described by Ference Kumin as having had close ties with the opposition to the government.{{Cite web |url= https://ferenckumin.tumblr.com/post/79978771132/the-hungary-expert-discredited-on-twitter |title= Ferenc Kumin: The Hungary 'Expert' Discredited on Twitter | Mandiner}} Balogh was a regular guest on ATV television programmes{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211210/s1e7s7LgfjQ| archive-date = 2021-12-10| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1e7s7LgfjQ| title = Eva S. Balogh | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211210/1y0MVhVFocs| archive-date = 2021-12-10| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y0MVhVFocs| title = Balogh Éva és Krausz Tamás | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} and published opinion pieces in Népszava,{{Cite web | url=https://nepszava.hu/szerzo/balogh-s-eva/ |title = Balogh S. Éva}}{{Cite web |url= https://nepszava.hu/1115595_s-balogh-eva-osszeomlo-epitmeny/ |title= S. Balogh Éva: Összeomló építmény}}{{Cite web |url= https://nepszava.hu/1124349_orosz-szal-a-pinter-ugyben/ |title= Orosz-szál a Pintér ügyben?}} a social-democratic newspaper. In November 2009, she gave a lecture for CIA officials at Langley, Virginia, where she characterized the imminent right-wing Fidesz victory in the 2010 Hungarian parliamentary election as a possible fascist breakthrough.{{Cite web |url= https://magyarnemzet.hu/archivum/belfold-archivum/az-amerikai-kormany-magyarorszagon-is-szines-forradalmat-akar-4069961/ |title= Az amerikai kormány Magyarországon is színes forradalmat akar?}}{{Cite web |url= http://nol.hu/kulfold/a_cia_kerdez__iranbol_penzelik_a_jobbikot_-436911/ | title=A CIA kérdez: Iránból pénzelik a Jobbikot?|date= November 20, 2009}}{{Cite web | url=https://hvg.hu/vilag/20091120_jobbikrol_kerdezoskodott_cia/ |title= A Jobbikról kérdezősködtek a CIA emberei |date= 20 November 2009}}
See also
{{Portal|Hungary|Politics}}
References
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External links
- [https://hungarianspectrum.org/ Hungarian Spectrum]
Category:European political websites
Category:Political mass media in Hungary
Category:Internet properties established in 2007
Category:Internet properties disestablished in 2021
Category:2007 establishments in Hungary