Discussing the background of ethnic conflicts that is to be found in uneven cultural development, the author analyses Romania's economic path and possibilities. He discusses the economic causes of the Roumanian-Hungarian conflicts and thinks that Transylvanian Hungarians could play a key role in the rise of Romania.

The domestic public consciousness can be characterised with such measure of idealisation of capitalism, which can hardly be found even in the conservative circles of the Anglo-Saxon world. Eventually this is a continuation of the wrong traditions of Stalinist formation of public opinion: the criticism of one existing society is based on the apology of another existing system. The ground for manipulation that threatens the future of the society is given by the lack of knowledge, what can be decreased by studying also a significant part of the progressive western economic, sociological and politological literature.

The authors start out from the national feeling in their line of thought. They discuss issues related to the nation and nationalities from this socio-psychological point of view. They make an attempt to differentiate the factors of belonging to a nation, its typical problems and seek an answer to the question that – considering the lessons drawn from the mistakes so far – how could the left wing approach the national issue.

The renaissance of nationalism in Eastern Europe has driven out „Marxism-Leninism", but it conserves a new type of authoritarian system. New elites striving for power settle on the inherited nationality conflicts.

Considering this book as one of the fundamental works on the gypsy question, the reviewer survey all those aspects in which Agnes Diósi points out the disadvantageous position of the Gypsies.