This book provides an account of the changing attitudes and policies towards the Gypsies in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Communist Europe and in post-Communist Hungary. It presents a general study of the dramatic transformations that have occurred throughout Eastern Europe...
This book provides an account of the changing attitudes and policies towards the Gypsies in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Communist Europe and in post-Communist Hungary. It presents a general study of the dramatic transformations that have occurred throughout Eastern Europe...
Until 1989 it was official Communist policy in eastern Europe to absorb Gypsies into the "ruling" working class. Since 1989, the Gypsies have become the scapegoat of postcommunism. More Gypsies have had their houses burned and have been killed in racist attacks in the first six...