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Most frequently adopted titles by North American universities are A Life Under Russian Serfdom, Prague Tales, Between Past and Future, Ideologies and National Identities, Memoir of Hungary, and The Doll.

"[A]n admirable contribution to our knowledge of one of Russia's less-studied peoples. Scholars of Russian and Soviet nationality issues, Mongolian studies, and late-Soviet/post.Soviet politics will all benefit from this original work." The Russian Review on Kalmykia in Russia's Past and Present...

"A sharp, thoughtful, graciously written study, based on impressive research in the archives of the French and Italian parties, as well as East German records, for insights into Soviet actions. The book does not change the overall understanding of the positions and roles of the two parties, but it adds much rich detail and subtlety. Summing up: highly recommended". – Choice on Which Socialism, Whose Détente?

The Smell of Humans
A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary

Ernô Szép

"An author whose voice is well worth discovering."
- Slavonica, John D. Klier, University College London,

As well as providing a piece of distinctively Central European autobiographical literature, this detailed and imaginative short memoir is also an important document of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944. The Smell of Humans relates the events following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, focusing on the author's own three week internment in a forced labour camp. This vivid and detailed portrayal of events reflects Hungary's, and indeed Europe's, historical legacy and reveals the voice of a man who remarkably harbored no bitterness in his soul.

Szép's tone is a meld of stupefaction and irony. Without overtly condemning or succumbing to despair, he describes a series of events along progressively grosser stages of infamy.

1994
204 pages
ISBN 978-1-85866-014-1 cloth $41.95 / €35.95 / £28.00
ISBN 978-1-85866-011-0 paperback $24.95 / €18.95 / £16.99