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Central European University Press
In this short, but rich piece of work, Erzsébet Szalai offers a neo-socialist alternative to socialism and neo-capitalism. Drawing upon the fertile tradition of left-wing Hungarian Social Science, she offers her own theory of transitional society, suggesting that socialism was not an independent formation, but instead a society in transition. She relocates soviet-type societies on the... Read more
Preface CHAPTER 1 The Power Structure and Ownership Relations of Semiperipheral Socialism CHAPTER 2 Power and Society CHAPTER 3 The Issue of Interest Integration CHAPTER 4 Actors of the Open Crisis CHAPTER 5 The Socio-Cultural Heritage and Its Structural Effects CHAPTER 6 The One-Party System and the Transitory Society CHAPTER 7 The Message CHAPTER 8 The Chances of the New Socialist Alternative, Bibliography
Biography
Erzsébet Szalai is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
