The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle? Sovietization and Americanization in a Communist Country: Zsuzsanna Varga, Lanham, MD & London: Lexington Books, 2021, 346pp., £35.00 ebook.

Further, Varga provides a detailed comparison between the Soviet and the Hungarian models, including the period of high Stalinism, complemented by a wider Eastern European comparison. Zsuzsanna Varga's book is another important pioneering step in the study of the history of state socialism in Eastern Europe. For Western observers, the new era started with the introduction of Hungary's New Economic Mechanism (NEM), the only reform of the 1960s in Eastern Europe that survived the oppression of the Prague Spring. [Extracted from the article]