Inventing Free-Market Leninism. Dilemmas of the Last Generation of Communists in Hungary and Poland Cover Image

Wymyślając wolnorynkowy leninizm. Dylematy ostatniego pokolenia komunistów na Węgrzech i w Polsce
Inventing Free-Market Leninism. Dilemmas of the Last Generation of Communists in Hungary and Poland

Author(s): Michał Przeperski
Subject(s): History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: reform; crisis; political system transformation; perestroika; Leszek Miller; Miklós Németh; 1989

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the political activities and the language used by two representatives of the last generation of communist politicians in Poland and Hungary: Miklós Németh and Leszek Miller. The text aims to examine similarities and differences, potential mutual flows of ideas and inspirations, and in consequence – to uncover new analytical fields within which researchers could formulate new, more complete and convincing research hypotheses and theses. They concern both the last years of the functioning of the communist system and the starting point of the new, non-communist statehood and new socio-political-economic system.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 189-214
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish