Some authors portray civil society as the highest stage of community harmony and consensus. Civil society, however, is not so much the terrain of free association and consensus, but competition and cleavages.

Table of contents

1. Mocsáry József : Privatisation revisited
2. Bartha Eszter : From transitology to transformation
3. Horváth Gizella : The myth of a “civic Hungary”
4. Farkas Miklós : History lessons for boys (and girls)
5. Marc Bloch : The Hungarian conquest
6. Konok Péter : The Hungarian Soviet Republic and te restructuring of history
7. Dietrich Orlow : Faces of fascism (interview)
8. Tézli Péter : on Andras Tokaji: Music under stalinism and in the Third Reich
9. James W. Loewen : Lies my teacher told me (excerpt)
10. Juhász József : History lessons in the service of “nation building”
11. Csoma Mózes : Falsifying history in Asia
12. Szalai Pál : On the nature of the Horty regime
13. Andor László : The New York drama and the Hungarian press
14. Immanuel Wallerstein : The terrorist crisis week by week
15. Borisz Kagarlickij : The US and Russia: the impact of terrorism
16. Arundhati Roy : The algebra of Infinite Justice
17. Humanista Internacionálé : For a world free of war and violence
18. BAL : Statemant on the bombing of Afghanistan
19. P. Podrabinek, Pjotr Markovics Abovin-Egidesz : Principles of socialism – Views of a Gulag inmate