Revival: Society in the Making: Hungarian Social and Societal Policy, 1945-75 (1979): Hungarian Social and Societal Policy, 1945-75

This important book is the product of a remarkable experience. A sociologist domiciled in Hungary, the author has intermittently taught and studied in France, Britain and the United States. Few social scientists of the post-Second World War generation have had this range of experience. And, as we know from the history of theoretical physics, psychoanalysis, economic and other fields, Hungary is the incubator of great talents.

A Society in the Making can be read on three levels: as a study of...