Rate My Professor Laszlo Borhi

László Borhi is the Peter A. Kadas Chair Professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. His academic background includes a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences earned in 2012 for his dissertation on Hungarian-American relations from 1942 to 1949, a “Kandidátus” degree in historical science from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1999, a University doctorate from ELTE University Budapest in 1993, a Master of Arts from Indiana University Bloomington in 1991, and studies at Exeter College Oxford in 1991, as well as earlier coursework at Indiana University and ELTE University Budapest. Borhi's research specializations encompass Cold War history, U.S. foreign policy after 1945, 20th-century Hungarian history, international relations in East Central Europe from 1815 to 2000, Eastern European history in the 19th and 20th centuries, and dictatorships under Nazi and communist regimes. He has authored key books such as Dealing with Dictators: The United States, Hungary and East Central Europe, 1942-1989 (Indiana University Press, 2016), Hungary in the Cold War – Between the Soviet Union and the United States (CEU Press, 2004), Survival under Dictatorships – Life and Death in Nazi and Communist Regimes, 1944-1953 (CEU Press, 2024), Magyarország a hidegháborúban (Corvina, 2005), and Magyar-amerikai kapcsolatok, 1941-1989 (MTA Történettudományi Intézete, 2009). He has also edited volumes including Soviet Occupation Policy in a Comparative Perspective: Austria, Hungary, Romania (CEU Press, 2015).