The study presents the picture of socialism and the Soviet Union of three western intellectuals (Bertrand Russel, Victor Serge and Walter Citrine) who visited Russia in te revolutionary and Stalinist era. Based on Foucault's archeology of knowledge theory if attempts to unfold the mental schemes, which set the limits of cognition for the travellers in the first place.

Virtual round table discussion on the reports of Hungarian delegates who participated at the Forum.

Editors: Ivan Bajomi and Andras Lanyi (university ELTE)

Leftwing thinkers on the EU Constitutional Treaty.

The transnationalisation of law raises the question whether the power of nation states is declining and withit the monopoly of legislation on the nation state. The transnationalisation of law means the restructuring, rather than reducing of the existing governmental system. The elements of the global rule of law are related to the existing legal practice.