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Historian Hans Kohn contrasted the liberal, democratic, and political nationalism of the West and the aristocratic, authoritarian, backward, and ethnic nationalism of Eastern Europe. Deme (1992) argues that Magyar nationalism belongs in the former category rather than the latter. The historical development of nationalism in Hungary centers around writings of Sándor Bessenyei (1747-1811), who focused on both political liberty and cultural nationalism, and Count István Széchenyi, the leading statesman of Hungary in the 1830s, who tried to transform Hungary into a modern constitutional state and establish institutions to support Magyar nationalism.<ref> Laszlo Deme,  "Pre-1848 Magyar Nationalism Revisited: Ethnic and Authoritarian or Political and Progressive?" ''East European Quarterly'' 1992 27(2): 141-169. </ref>  

Historian Hans Kohn contrasted the liberal, democratic, and political nationalism of the West and the aristocratic, authoritarian, backward, and ethnic nationalism of Eastern Europe. Deme (1992) argues that Magyar nationalism belongs in the former category rather than the latter. The historical development of nationalism in Hungary centers around writings of Sándor Bessenyei (1747-1811), who focused on both political liberty and cultural nationalism, and Count István Széchenyi, the leading statesman of Hungary in the 1830s, who tried to transform Hungary into a modern constitutional state and establish institutions to support Magyar nationalism.<ref> Laszlo Deme,  "Pre-1848 Magyar Nationalism Revisited: Ethnic and Authoritarian or Political and Progressive?" ''East European Quarterly'' 1992 27(2): 141-169. </ref>  

see [[History of Hungary]]

 

*[[History of Hungary]]

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