Critique of the book Tamas Krausz: Soviet Thermidor (Szovjet thermidor) Napvilág Kiadó, Budapest, 1996. The 1917 experiment in Russia has not ended in a way as it was expected. Krausz in his book investigates those views that as early as in the 1920s intrepreted the changes as a "Thermidor" or burgeois restauration.
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October: a light, a reflection or a will-o’-de-wisp
(Bergmann, Theodor – Hedeler, Wladislaw – Keßler, Mario – Schäfer, Gert (Hrsg.): Der Widerschein der Russischen Revolution. Ein kritischer Rückblick auf 1917 und die Folgen. [Reflections of the Russian revolution. Critical look at 1917 and its aftermath] Hamburg, VSA Verlag, 260.)
The book reviewed is a collection of lectures presented at a conference on the 80th anniversary of the Russian revolution in Elgersburg, Germany.
Revolution missed? The French revolution and women
In 1789, the Declaration of Human Rights declared the equality of people a normative principle of political order. In principle, this also provided foundation for the participation of woman in public life. This, however, did not happen. Woman did not become citizens, so the new democracy excluded more than half of humanity from politics.
October 1917: a model for Western Marxists?
Lenin thought that due to the enormous develoment gap between different countries, the Russian revolution can only in a very limited sense be a model for Western communist movements. Later, the Soviet dominance in the international communist movement caused distortions in thinking and practice.
Hungary’s 1848 and the women
The 19th century has been seen as the period of the rise of the bourgeoise and the nation-state. Bourgeois revolutions played a crutial role in this process and also in the exclusion pof women from civil rights. In Hungary, resistance to this new dicrimination was even weaker than elsewhere.