Unreported stories from the history of Hungarian privatisation from the theoretical debates of the late 1980s through spontaneous privatisation and the sale of public utilities in 1995, illustrated with names and data. Recommended literature for those interested in a fuller picture on the 1990s.

The German and japanese public life has a different attitude to the legacy of the 20th century. In Germany, the responsibility for agresion and the Holocaust cannot be questioned. In Japan, however, apoligetic works are still part of the everyday discourse.

November 1989 was a kind of "black Friday" for social science, since the fall of the Berlin Wall had not been predicted by the prevailing tendencies. Mainstream social science still struggles to find an adequate paradigm.

The tendencies born in the changes of 1989 created a semi-colonial capitalist regime, which quickly found their common features with the interwar counter-revolutionary systems. This has led to the rehabilitation of the Horty  regime in Hungary.