A Károlyi Mihály-levelezés kutatása és publikálásának befejezése = The Research for the Publication of Mihály Károlyi's Correspondence

A kutatás célja Károlyi Mihály levelezése VI. kötetének (1949-1955) elmaradt kiadása, illetve a levelezés IV. kötete (1930. július-1944) anyagának összeállítása, megszerkesztése és kiadása. Ezzel az I-VI kötetből (1905-1955 évkörök) álló sorozat 1978-ban megkezdett kiadása befejeződik, mintegy 440 A/5 ív terjedelemben. A VI. kötet kiadása mintegy másfél év csúszással (kiadó késése miatt) 188 elején megtörtént. A IV. kötet mintegy 70 ívnyi anyagának összegyűjtése és naygrészt begépelése is megtörtént. A szerkesztési, jegyzetelési, fordítási munkák, apparátus készítése azonban 2009-re, esetleg 2010 elejére maradnak, így a kiadásra csak 2010-ben kerül sor. | The editor's task was to complete editing/publishing the VIth vol. of the Correspondence of Michael Károlyi (1949-1955), and collecting, editing and publishing the IVth vol. (July 1930-1944) Thus comes to end the publishing of this series, containing approx. 440 A/5 sheets (nearly 5000 pages). The VIth vol. was printed in early 2008 that is detained by the publisher for one and a half year. Collecting of the IVth vol.-s letters is finished (approx. 70 A/5 sheets), also for most part the typing, while the editing, translating, index-making remains for 2009, possibly first months of 2010; following it will be published in 2010

Karl Polanyi in Budapest: On his political and intellectual formation

Copyright © Archives Européennes de Sociologie 2009.A major thinker and inspiring teacher, Karl Polanyi's contributions have long been influential in a variety of disciplines, notably economic sociology and economic history. Two of his innovations, substantivist economic anthropology and the “double movement thesis,” are recognized as seminal. All of the works for which he is known, however, were written late in life, when in exile, and very little is known of his Hungarian writings, virtually none of which had, until now, been translated. Despite his fame, the biographical literature on Polanyi remains modest: some studies provide invaluable insights, yet all are brief. This article attempts to make some headway in remedying these lacunae. It sketches the contours of that extraordinary historical-geographical conjuncture in which he was formed, and explores his intellectual and political engagements in the Galilei Circle and the Radical Bourgeois Party. It seeks in particular to elucidate the complex roles played by questions of nation, ethnicity and class in the life of the young Karl Polanyi

Social democracy, embeddedness and decommodification: On the conceptual innovations and intellectual affiliations of Karl Polanyi

Of the several debates that revolve around the work of the economic historian and political economist Karl Polanyi, one that continues to exercise minds concerns his analysis of, and political attitudes toward, post-war capitalism and the welfare state. Simplified a little, it is a debate with two sides. To borrow Iván Szelényi's terms, one side constructs a ‘hard’ Karl Polanyi, the other a ‘soft’ one. The former advocated a socialist mixed economy dominated by redistributive mechanisms. He was a radical socialist for whom the market should never be the dominant mechanism of economic coordination. His ‘soft’ alter ego insisted that the market system remain essentially intact but be complemented by redistributive mechanisms. The ‘double movement’ – the central thesis of his ‘Great Transformation’ – acts, in this reading, as a self-correcting mechanism that moderates the excesses of market fundamentalism; its author was positioned within the social-democratic mainstream for which the only realistic desirable goal is a regulated form of capitalism. In terms of textual evidence there is much to be said for both interpretations. In this article I suggest a different approach, one that focuses upon the meaning of Polanyi's concepts in relation to their socio-political and intellectual environment

Antifascism, the 1956 Revolution and the politics of communist autobiographies in Hungary 1944-2000

This is a postprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Europe-Asia Studies © 2006 University of Glasgow; Europe-Asia Studies is available online at http://www.informaworld.com.Using oral history, this contribution explores the reshaping of individuals' public and private autobiographies in response to different political environments. In particular, it analyses the testimony of those who were communists in Hungary between 1945 and 1956, examining how their experiences of fascism, party membership, the 1956 Revolution and the collapse of communism led them in each case to refashion their life stories. Moreover, it considers how their biographies played varying functions at different points in their lives: to express identification with communism, to articulate resistance and to communicate ambition before 1956; to protect themselves from the state after 1956; and to rehabilitate themselves morally in a society which stigmatised them after 1989.I didn't use this word 'liberation' (felszabadulás), because in 1956 my life really changed. Everybody's lives went through a great change, but mine especially. … I wasn't disgusted with myself that I had called the arrival of the Red Army in 1945 a liberation, but [after 1956] I didn't use it anymore

Szilágyi János György emlékkönyv 2.

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Opponensi vélemények

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Egzisztenciális tudomány. Interjú Szilágyi János Györggyel, 2. rész

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