EXTENDED PROFILE--The Life and Career of Professor Istvan Deak
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This is the first in a series of extended profiles on the lives and careers of scholars who work on East-Central Europe. It features several interviews with Istvan Deak (b. 1926), Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. Deak is the author of several books, including: Weimar Germany's Left-wing Intellectuals (1968); The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849 (1979); Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 (1990); Essays on Hitler's Europe (2001). He also co-edited, together with Jan Gross and Tony Judt, The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath (2000). The interviews were conducted at Prof. Deák's home in New York on December 5, 2009 and April 18, 2010. Special thanks go to Ph.D. candidate in History at Cornell University, Máté Rigó, for his assistance in recording and cataloging the interviews.