Promote, Tolerate, Ban

Most Hungarian art and cultural historians would self-evidently refer to the “policy of the three T-s” as the central organising principle of administering culture in state-socialist times. Non-natives, however, may not find this reference easy to decode. But now the volume Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary initiates an international readership to master this jargon. Although they do not alliterate in English, the verbs of the book’s main title provide a translation

Art · Cold war · Humanities · Political science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law