There Is No Such Thing as Eastern Europe

Paul Lendvai was Vienna correspondent of The Financial Times from 1960 to 1982, as well as contributing regularly to Swiss, German and Austrian papers. He is currently a senior executive of ORF, the Austrian state radio and TV company, where he also presents a monthly political discussion programme on television, European Studio. Since 1973, he has been editor of Europäische Rundschau and, since 1990, Chairman of the Európai Szemle Foundation.

He is a member of the executive board of the Austrian Foreign Policy Association, as well as member of the International PEN, IPI and the Central European working team of the Bertelsmann Foundation.

Among his many books, the following have also appeared in English: Eagles in Cobwebs. Nationalism and Communism in the Balkans, 1969; Anti-Semitism without Jews. Communist Eastern Europe, 1971; Bureaucracy of Truth. How Communist Governments Manage the News, 1981; Hungary: The Art of Survival, 1988. His most recent book was Between Hope and Disenchantment. Reflections on the Change in Eastern Europe, 1994, published in German and Hungarian.

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