An introduction of the forty five year old journal of American socialists. The history of Montly Review run paralel with that of the cold war. The journal has provided a basis for the development of modern left-wing thinking, and for the birth of some epoch-making works in social science.

History texbooks have never relied exlusively on the state of the art; they were always overwhelmed by the political developments of the era. Following a particular topic of history books through the ages can tell a lot not only about the given question, but also about the politics and prevailing ideologies of those times. Such an inquiry is especially interesting, if the topic is the assessment of the revolutions of 1918 and 1919.

A maverick in contemporary Russian philosophy with dozens of books, some of them published even in Hungarian. He wrote, among others, the deep-cutting critique of the Gorbachev era titled Catastroika (combining the words catastrophy and perestroika). The portrait functions as an introduction to the article by Zinoviev.