Go East! – A History of Hungarian Turanism Ablonczy Hardback 9780253057402

Go East!A History of Hungarian Turanism\nAuthor(s): Balzs Ablonczy, Sean Lambert\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253057402, 978-0253057402\nSynopsis\nFor more than two centuries, Hungarians believed they shared an ethnic link with people of Japanese, Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish, and Turkic descent. Known as \""Turanism,\"" this ideology impacts Hungarian politics, science, and cultural and ethnic identity even today. \n\n In Go East!: A History of Hungarian Turanism, Balzs Ablonczy examines the rise of Hungarian Turanism and its lasting effect on the country's history. Turanism arose from the collapse of the Kingdom of Hungary, when the nation's intellectuals began to question Hungary's place in the Western world. The influence of this ideology reached its peak during World War I, when Turanian societies funded research, economic missions, and geographical expeditions. Ablonczy traces Turanism from .