On the books of Erzsébet Szalai: Globális válság, magyar válság, alternatívák [Global Crisis, Hungarian Crisis, Alternatives]; Zsuzsa Ferge: Vágányok és vakvágányok a társadalompolitikában [Tracks and Sidetracks in Social Policy]; János Ladányi: Leselejtezettek. A kirekesztett népesség társadalom- és térszerkezeti elhelyezkedésének átalakulása Magyarországon a piacgazdasági átmenet időszakában [On the Waste Heap. The Social and Geographical Transformation of the Outcast Society During Market Transition]. All published by L'Harmattan Kiadó, Budapest 2012.
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The Unavoidable Solitude. Varlam Shalamov and the Theoretical Heritage
The shadow of Solzhenitsyn, who is well known or even a star in the West, still hides the oeuvre of Varlam Shalamov, the representative of Gulag literature overgrowing him. The importance of him can be compared of Gogol, Platonov and Bely. Shalamov, until the end of his life, insisted on the ethos of the Trotskyist opposition of the 1920s and the revolutionary message of the Russian intelligentsia on the "unity of words and act" – not matching anti-Stalinism with anti-Soviet theories.
The “Liberation Theology” of Varlam Shalamov
The theoretical roots of the oeuvre of Shalamov go back to the some kind of "liberation theology" of the renewal movement in the Orthodox Church developed after 1917 under the leadership of Metropolitan Vvedensky, which movement was ardently supported by his father Tikhon Sahalamov. The "Living Church" movement accepted the moral justice of the October Revolution, which it would like to actively introduce in actual life by the church. According to its adherents "communism is identical to the Gospel but was written in atheistic letters". In the 1930s the Stalinist State, after its Thermidorian turn, rather collaborated with the black-hundredist clergymen, which accepted its dictatorship.
The Deep Play of Finance, Demos and Ethnos in the New-Old Europe
The comprehensive study applies a new analytical framework inspired by globalisation, unifying the 'anthropology of global systems' with the traditional Marxist class analysis on examining the historical role of the capital dynamics. It sets a parallel between the supremacy of Dutch capital over England at the end of the 17th century followed by an anti-oligarch rebel in the Netherlands and the present neoliberal globalisation followed by neo-national rebels after 1989, especially looking into the similarities between the structurally different Netherlands and Hungary.
The Situation of Women, Politics and Feminism in Latin-America Over the Past Two Decades
Women were prominently present in anti-dictatorship movements in Latin-America, and the aim of gender equality was naturally connected to the fight for human rights. The past two decades brought relevant changes in the situation for women, which can be attributed to the leftist political turn on the continent. Nevertheless, the improvement is scattered: the advance is substantial concerning economic areas and education but the improvement is slow on the violence against women, and reactionary tendencies also can be found concerning reproductive rights even in countries under leftist governments.