Can the figure of the sambista be a Brazilian form of what Antonio Gramsci called "socialist bodies"? Is there a "political manifest" in the figure of the sambistas? If this so, how does the sambista represent an organism, which Gramsci called "political party"?

In the summer of 1996 President Boris Yeltsin ordered a new Russian national ideology. Those who undertook the implementation of the ukaz looked back to philosophers long forgotten and to characteristics of the Russian people one could have thought to have been eliminated from society.

The attempt to restructureSoviet society in the late 1980s, known as perestroika, included a good deal of left-wing elements. The paper explores the international context of the degeneration of this process, which have led to one of teh major social disasters of our century.

In recent years we have experienced various extremes in the assesment of the 1919 Soviet Republic of Hungary. a leading Hungarian historian, member of the Academy of Sciences, asks whether it is possible to provide a balanced picture about that very important period of Hungarian history.

New documents about the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, which do not only tell us about the tragic end of two outstanding socialist politicians but also about the role of those in history who "only" implement the commands of others.