Hungary's Negotiated Revolution: Economic Reform, Social Change and Political SuccessionCambridge University Press, 28. sept 1996 - 544 pages In this book, first published in 1996, Rudolf Tökés offers a comprehensive overview of the rise and fall of the Kadar regime in Hungary between 1957 and 1990. The approach is interdisciplinary, reviewing the regime's record with emphasis on politics, macroeconomic policies, social change and the ideas and personalities of political dissidents and the regime's 'successor generation'. The study provides a fully documented reconstruction of the several phases of the ancien régime's road from economic reform to political collapse, based on interviews with former top party leaders and transcripts of the Party Central Committee. Tökés gives an in-depth account of the personalities and issues involved in Hungary's peaceful transformation from one-party state to parliamentary democracy, and a comprehensive assessment of Hungary's post-Communist politics, economy and society. |
Contents
the rise and decline | 37 |
from plan to market | 82 |
from latent pluralism to civil society | 117 |
ideas personalities | 167 |
the successor generation | 210 |
issues | 253 |
from the Opposition | 305 |
political mobilization party | 361 |
toward a new model? | 399 |
Notes | 441 |
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administrative agenda András Antall's apparat April Béla Beszélő Budapest bureaucratic cadres CC secretary CC's Central Committee communist party congress cultural Czechoslovakia decisions democracy democratic dissidents elections electoral elites enterprise Ferenc Fidesz foreign groups György Aczél György Lázár hand HSWP HSWP's Hungarian politics Hungary Hungary's Ibid ideological Imre Nagy Imre Pozsgay incumbents institutional intellectuals intelligentsia internal Interview issues István János Berecz János Kádár János Kis József Antall June Károly Grósz Károly Németh Kiadó László László Rajk leader leadership Magyar March membership ment Miklós Németh Ministry negotiations Népszabadság nomenklatura nonparty November October official opposition organizations outcome Parliament parliamentary party apparat party's percent policy lobbies policy-making Politburo Populist position postcommunist Pozsgay's prime minister Rákosi regime's revolution Rezső Nyers role Roundtable samizdat Sándor social socialist society Soviet Tamás tion votes workers Zoltán