István Borsody

* Prešov, September 16, 1911 – † Boston, October 17, 2000 / journalist, historian ; ; In 1934 he earned a doctorate in law and politics from the Czech Charles University in Prague. In the following years he completed his studies at Western universities. After a short legal practice, he became a journalist. In 1937-1938 he was an internal employee of the Prague Hungarian Newspaper. In Czechoslovakia, he belonged to the intellectual circle of the Hungarian opposition parties from his university years, and his studies analyzing minority society and intellectual life were published in Slovak and Hungarian journals. From 1938 he was a foreign policy columnist for Hungary in Budapest. In 1945-1946 he participated in the editing of Szabad Szó and Új Magyarország. In 1945, he received a private teaching qualification in Eastern European history from the University of Budapest. In 1946, he entered the foreign service and became press attaché at the Hungarian embassy in Washington. He resigned and defected in June 1947. He first taught at Pennsylvania College for Women, and then from 1953 at Chatham College for Women in Pittsburgh. Until his retirement in 1977, he lectured on Russian and modern European history. He moved to Boston in 1988. His Hungarian-language writings were published in Látóhatár, Új Látóhatár, Irodalmi Újság, and Magyar Füzetek. He was a member of the editorial board of Látóhatár in 1953–1954 and 1957–1958. From 1979 to 1989, he was a member of the editorial working group and advisory board of Magyar Füzetek. He has published regularly in English in American academic journals. ; ; His main works: ; Hungarians in Czechoslovakia 1918–1938 (ed.), 1938, ; The Triumph of Tyranny. The Nazi and Soviet Conquest of Central Europe, 1960, ; The Tragedy of Central Europe (an expanded and revised edition of Triumph of Tyranny), 1980, ; The Hungarians: a divided nation, 1988, ; European Years, 1991.