Discussing the conditions of the survival of ethnic minorities, the author underlines remaining of their communities in one bloc as a basic precondition of preserving identity.

The European multinational concerns are preparing for union and within that for swallowing the whole of Eastern Europe because only this way will they stand up to the increasingly sharp rivalry between Europe and the USA. For this reason, a RAF-type future Hungarian extremist terrorist organisation would land in a difficult situation if it wanted to assassinate the person responsible for the optimal returns of the total Hungarian capital.

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.