Iván Tibor Berend (commonly known as ''Iván T. Berend''; born 11 December 1930) is a
Hungarian historian
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and
teacher
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who served as President of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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from 1985 until 1990. He was a member of
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
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's Central Committee between 1988 and 1989. Since 1990 he has been living in
Los Angeles
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and teaching at
UCLA
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. In 2015, he was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.
Publications
With György Ránki:
*''Magyarország gyáripara 1900–1914'' (1955)
*''Magyarország gyáripara a második világháború előtt és a háború időszakában 1933–1944'' (1958)
*''Magyarország a fasiszta Németország „életterében” 1933–1939'' (1960)
*''Közép-Kelet-Európa gazdasági fejlődése a 19–20. században'' (1966)
*''A magyar gazdaság száz éve 1848–1944'' (1973)
*''Gazdaság és társadalom'' (1974)
*''Gazdasági elmaradottság, kiutak és kudarcok a 19. századi Európában'' (1979)
*''Európa gazdasága 1780–1914'' (1987)
Major works:
*''Újjáépítés és a nagytőke elleni harc Magyarországon 1945–1949'' (1962)
*''A szocialista gazdaság fejlődése Magyarországon'' (1974)
*''Napjaink – a történelemben'' (1980)
*''Válságok évtizedek'' (1982)
*''Gazdasági útkeresés'' (1983)
*''A magyar gazdasági reform útja'' (1988)
*''Transition to a Market Economy at The End of the 20th Century'' (szerk., 1994)
*''Central and Eastern Europe 1944–1993: Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery'' (1996, in Hungarian with the title of ''Terelőúton'', 1999)
*''A történelem – ahogy megéltem'' (1997)
*''Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War II.'' (1998)
*''History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long 19th Century'' (2003, in Hungarian with the title of ''Kisiklott történelem'')
*''An Economic History of 20th Century Europe'' (2006, in Hungarian with the title of ''Európa gazdasága a 20. században'', 2008)
*''From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe Since 1973'' (2009)
*''History in My Life: A Memoir in Three Eras'' (2009)
*''Europe in Crisis – Bolt from the blue?'' (2013)
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References
External links
*MTI Ki Kicsoda 2009, Magyar Távirati Iroda Zrt., Budapest, 2008, 105. old.,
Adatlap a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia honlapján
(in English)
1930 births
Living people
Writers from Budapest
Hungarian Jews
Members of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
20th-century Hungarian historians
Historians of Hungary
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Historians of European integration
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Holocaust survivors
University of California, Los Angeles faculty