Budapest 1900

• List of Illustrations
• p. xi

• Introduction
• p. xiii

• Chapter 1
• Colors, Words, Sounds
• p. 3

• The painter Munkacsy's funeral
• p. 3

• His rise and fall
• p. 6

• The seasons of Budapest
• p. 10

• The atmosphere of the city in 1900
• p. 19

• Three writers of Budapest in 1900
• p. 16

• Krudy's descriptions of the city
• p. 19

• Differences between Budapest and Vienna
• p. 27

• 1900 a turning point in the history of Budapest
• p. 28

• Chapter 2
• The City
• p. 29

• Its physical situation
• p. 30

• Its districts
• p. 32

• Its buildings and architecture
• p. 48

• The crowding of the city
• p. 53

• Rail, river and road; other communications; public services
• p. 57

• Material progress and population increase
• p. 62

• The reputation of Budapest abroad
• p. 65

• Chapter 3
• The People
• p. 67

• The historical developments of Buda and Pest
• p. 68

• Their unification
• p. 70

• The "Millennium"
• p. 71

• State and conditions of the population in 1900
• p. 73

• Bourgeois influences
• p. 75

• Culinary habits and changes
• p. 77

• Criminality and prostitution
• p. 81

• Athletics and sports
• p. 83

• The structure of classes; the old nobility; the gentry
• p. 85

• the financial aristocracy and the patrician class
• p. 95

• Changes in the composition of the wealthy classes
• p. 95

• The Jewish population
• p. 95

• The working classes
• p. 97

• The rigidities of class consciousness
• p. 99

• Social mobility
• p. 100

• The Magyarization of Budapest
• p. 102

• Elements of bourgeois civilization
• p. 103

• Relations of the sexes
• p. 104

• Financial lightheadedness and probity
• p. 106

• Chapter 4
• Politics and Powers
• p. 108

• The Parliament
• p. 108

• Rhetorical habits and customs
• p. 109

• Nationalist optimism
• p. 110

• The worsening of parliamentary behavior
• p. 111

• Historical and constitutional development of the Hungarian state
• p. 112

• The Compromise of 1867
• p. 116

• The political crisis of 1890
• p. 117

• The unraveling of the political equilibrium
• p. 120

• The fallings of Hungarian prestige abroad
• p. 123

• The problem of the nationalities
• p. 125

• The decline of Liberalism
• p. 129

• The Social Democrats
• p. 130

• Anti-Semitism
• p. 131

• The new Catholic party and movement
• p. 132

• The 1905 elections and the end of the Liberal monopoly in Budapest
• p. 135

• Chapter 5
• The Generation of 1900
• p. 137

• The concept of generations
• p. 137

• What the Generation of 1900 had in common
• p. 138

• Its members
• p. 139

• The Budapest schools
• p. 142

• The cultural atmosphere
• p. 146

• Book publishing
• p. 147

• The coffeehouses and their culture
• p. 148

• The Budapest press
• p. 152

• Literary journals
• p. 152

• Hungarian literature in 1900
• p. 154

• Writers of the generation of 1900
• p. 156

• Three well-known writers abroad
• p. 157

• The great writers unknown abroad
• p. 159

• The Ady explosion
• p. 164

• The populist pioneers
• p. 168

• The boulevardier talents
• p. 170

• The new painters of the generation
• p. 171

• The modern nationalist architects
• p. 174

• Bartok and Kodaly
• p. 175

• Theatrical and musical culture and the entertainment industry
• p. 176

• Retrospective criticism of a generation by Szekfu and others
• p. 179

• Its subsequent revision
• p. 180

• Chapter 6
• Seeds of Troubles
• p. 182

• Decline of the general equilibrium in 1900
• p. 182

• Attacks on Liberalism
• p. 183

• The changing condition of the gentry
• p. 183

• A new nationalism
• p. 185

• Attacks on Budapest
• p. 187

• A new variety of anti-Semitism
• p. 188

• Left and Right: the symptomatic development of the Society of Social Science
• p. 197

• A semblance of prosperity and peace before 1914
• p. 204

• Catholicism in Budapest around 1900
• p. 204

• The summer of 1914
• p. 205

• German ideological and cultural influence
• p. 206

• Chapter 7
• Since Then
• p. 209

• Budapest during the First World War
• p. 209

• The end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and the Budapest October Revolution
• p. 210

• The short-lived Radical and Communist governments
• p. 211

• The nationalist reaction
• p. 212

• The amputation of Hungary
• p. 212

• The recovery of the twenties
• p. 213

• The shadow of the Third Reich
• p. 214

• Budapest during the Second World War
• p. 215

• Its German and Russian occupation; the siege of Budapest
• p. 216

• Its destruction
• p. 218

• Under Communism
• p. 221

• The 1956 Rising
• p. 222

• The rebuilding of the city
• p. 223

• The tourist invasion; Budapest revisited
• p. 224

• References
• p. 227

• Bibliography
• p. 231

• Acknowledgments
• p. 237

• Index
• p. 239