According to the author, the new political system with neo-Horthyist features – after establishing its new constitution and surviving its first crisis during the winter of 2011/2012 – will be consolidated and will likely to stay, contrary to the hopes of its neoliberal critics. Of course corrections will be made to it, mostly as reactions to international pressure but the political system can only be replaced by the majority of voters. This cannot come before the new regime fails permanently in all segments of social life.

We are living in a chaotic situation. Due to the structural crisis of the capitalist world economy, standard solutions for managing a shrinking economy do not work anymore, despite that politicians and experts keep assuring that the recovery is just around the corner. Fluctuations in everything are large and rapid and this applies as well to social protest. This is what we are seeing as the geography of protest constantly shifts.

A special and unique form of capitalism has evolved in Eastern Europe after the post-socialist transformation. This form is characterised by the unusual weak SMEs sector, an agricultural sector with few efficient capitalist large farms and many weak small farms often producing for self-subsistence and very weak labour in general. In these new systems, in addition to multinational companies, technocrats have a large weight in the evolving domestic capitalist elite, coming from the second rank of the former nomenclature and often with inherited bourgeois cultural capital.

In fact, the 'second edition' of capitalism is being created in Russia rather than of its 'restoration'. While pre-revolutionary Russia, although feudal-capitalistic and underdeveloped, was progressing, the present, now capitalistic Russia in turn is losing its population, declining in culture and science. Assembly lines now are advancing in sectors requiring advanced technology and scientific background. Industries, which were regarded progressive 30-40 years ago now stagnate. The traditional collective cultural activities of the Soviet times have disappeared, and are replaced by passive, individual free-time activities made at home, which characterise atomised societies. It is a special second edition, as global capitalism placed Russia on the semi-periphery, launching regressive and degrading processes.

The study examines the anti-Nazi screening procedures at the Hungarian Radio, an important but almost forgotten episode in the post liberation history of Hungary – fighting delusions. The practice of the screening committees and people's courts should be interpreted in a complex way: they provided a forum for acting out justified emotions ignited by war events and war propaganda and they made a basis for subsequently launching show trials but also helped to reveal facts of the that time recent past and also conveyed the message that serving a criminal regime was immoral and a crime itself.