From Bela Kun to Janos Kadar

Miklos Molnar

• Part 1 From monarchy to revolution: Count Karolyi's republic; Hungarian society after the first World War. Part 2 The emergence of the Communist party: the beginnings; the Soviet Republic. Part 3 The clandestine party from 1919 to 1930: after the defeat; between Vienna and Moscow; the first congress; "Blum's Theses" and the second congress. Part 4 The years of crisis - the party and the comintern. Part 5 From sectarianism to the "New Democracy": communists and "populists"; the activities of the Communist Party in 1914-1944. Part 6 From Moscow to Budapest: the "Muscovites"; the final preparations. Part 7 The totalitarian road: the party and the nation; Salami, hammer and sickle; the emergence of a totalitarian party; the meaning of the great turning-point. Part 8 Stalinism in action: the Rajk affair; the end of a society. Part 9 Imre Nagy and the 1956 revolution: the era of reforms; the writers' republic; the insurrection; Budapest-Moscow - the unequal confrontation; the crisis and dissolution of the Party. Part 10 The Kadar regime: the emergence of the new regime and the trial of Imre Nagy; a quarter century of relative political and economic stability; the "new economic mechanism" and Hungarian society; does the Hungarian experiment provide an alternative?; the Communist Party in the 1980s.