The study gives a historical outline of the Chechen-Russian war. This war – in contrast to public opinion and mainstream literature – has been fought for economic, political-territorial and social purposes, and as regards its origin, it is the result of the postsocialist transition. Raw materials – especially oil – and the control of the trading routes have caused great excitement for the different groups of oligarchs in Chechnya up to now, while people may think that they are experiencing an ethnic war.

The attack of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union is interpreted, both in Russia and in Hungary, along the lines of Goebbels's propaganda, by several historians as a preventive war. The article presents the misinterpretations, disprovals and misapprehensions of historians citing recently uncovered documents. The fate of the plan of Marshall Zhukov mentioned in the title also demonstrates the state of the historian's profession dealing with the World War II.

The study gives a critical analysis of the America and Russia concept of two authors of the same period and social background – Tocqueville and Custine. While the former – although his class background and mentality attached him to the ancien regime – recognizes the progressive features of the American society, the latter condemns not only the barbarism of tsarism, but he also thinks that the whole Russian nation is barbaric. The study uses two different time dimensions; and also investigates to what extent these authors may be regarded as timely today.

Can the technologies of the technocratic society rearrange the world according to their own image, or to the contrary, are we facing a new form of the crisis of capitalism? According to the technological redemption formula "if you are useful for the technology of others, you can get a opportunities which can offer you specific objectives and the means to reach them"

(arranged for press and notes written by Péter T. Zselensky) Somewhat strange, unusual for our readers, here are cogitations about life, love, community akin with the mentality of the Consciousness – fascinating details of the ideas of a self-conscious homeless person, today's hippie, a gentle rebel.