Category Archives: Periodical

No. 9 | (Spring 1991)

Table of contents
  1. Bill Lomax : The world turned upside down. The revolutions in Hungary 1956 and 1989
  2. Marton Imre : Western Europe in the grip of a rearranging world
  3. John Rees : New imperialism
  4. Tót Éva : How do the households defend themselves? – Conversation with sociologist Endre Sík
  5. Ékes Ildikó : How do we live ten years before the turn of the century? – A survey with questionnaires involving 6,000 households
  6. Tátrai Gábor : The 1990 general elections – Conversation with György Wiener
  7. Márkus Péter : Modernisation theories in the Hungarian social sciences in the ’80s – A plan
  8. Mocsáry József : Hungary and state capitalism – Thesis concerning the interpretation of the economic paradoxes of our history after 1949
  9. Szalai Pál : Will ideas of István Bibó win?
  10. Vigvári András : Reform and the change of system – A plan to the history of the Hungarian economic policy and reform
  11. Szabó András György : Is Marxism modern?
  12. Democracy
  13. On the Forum of Citizens’ Initiative
  14. Power has to be controlled – Conversation with András Hegedűs about the Workers’ Academy now being organised
  15. Charter of the Federation for Social Democracy 1990
  16. Szak Péter Otmár : Index and bibliography of Eszmélet, volumes 1-8.
  17. Kapitány Ágnes, Kapitány Gábor : Politics and/or society

Restructuring (Eastern) Europe

The authors analysed what is called "existing socialism" by stressing that it was doomed to failure from the beginning as it was unable to free itself from the effects of world capitalism. The analysis is supplemented with very detailed tables of the economic indexes of the individual socialist (and capitalist) countries.