1st Edition
Power and Knowledge Under Communism A Political History of Economic and Sociological Research in Hungary
Acknowledgements
List of Statistical Tables
Note on the archival sources and the related acronyms used in references
Introduction
Part I. Class-Relativism – Economics as Party Science, 1948–1953
Chapter 1. The Epistemology of Stalinism
Chapter 2. ‘Revolutionizing’ Economics
Part II. Rediscovering Newtonian Methodology: The Origins of Reform Economics, 1954–1957
Chapter 3. New Course Communism and Economics
Chapter 4. The Communal Aspects of Revival
Part III. Purges, Personalities, Personal Networks, and Patron-Client Relations
Chapter 5. The Test of the New Academic Regime in Economics: The Purge of 1958 and Its Afterlife
Chapter 6. Conning Through Four Decades: The Story of Hungarian Sociology Through the Prism of An Incomplete Biography
Conclusions
Select Bibliography
Index
Biography
György Péteri is professor emeritus in Trondheim, Norway. A historian of contemporary Hungary, he has published extensively. As a retiree, he remains engaged with research and writing. He follows with anxiety the devastation unhinged oligarchs and neo-totaliatrian politicians bring onto our world and seeks solace in amateur bird photography.
