1848 was the year of revolutions, and also an important turning point in world and Hungarian history. For the 150^th anniversary Eszmélet publishes articles casting light on 1848 events and aftermaths from less known angles. Interpreting the commemoration in a wider sense, we search answers on questions how the meaning of revolution changed through the 20^th century and how actual the questions of a revolution are in the present time lacking revolutions. We address the sociology of revolution as well.

Table of contents

1. alfa : The revolution and those who do not need it
2. Magyar Jenő : Lessons from the Communist Manifesto for the 21st century
3. Szigeti Péter : The burgeois nation-state and beyond
4. Diószegi István : The 1848 Hungarian revolution in international context
5. Erényi Tibor : 1848 and the Hungarian left in 1848
6. Henri Maler : Away with the past? An autopsy of communism
7. Szalai Pál : Istvan Bibo’s concept of socialism
8. Gilles Perrault : Communism: falsifications by a “black book”
9. Vastag Margó : On the margin of the Soviet Thermidor
10. Maróthy János : October: a light, a reflection or a will-o’-de-wisp
11. William A. Pelz : October 1917: a model for Western Marxists?
12. Konok Péter : Left-wing strategies: France 1968
13. Kenneth McRobbie : Ilona Duczynska: losses and hopes
14. Eszmélet , BAL : Forum on alternatives to neoliberalism
15. Kate Hudson : Left politics in Europe
16. Mihail I. Vojekov : Alternativy
17. Guy Debord : The society of the Spectacle
18. Geneviéve Fraisse, Barbara Schaeffer-Hegel : Revolution missed? The French revolution and women
19. Susan Zimmermann : Hungary’s 1848 and the women