Realism and Seeing the Essentials
Realism and Seeing the Essentials

Summary/Abstract: This is the second part of a study with the above title. In the first part the author examines the nature of the compromise accepted by most Hungarian intellectuals after 1956, which he characterizes as a "compromise that rested on overt or covert falsehoods." However, a collection of texts by seventy-six Hungarian authors, covering 1001 typed pages, and dedicated to Istvan Bibo, is a testimonial to the repudiation of such a compromise. This article was received in July, 1981. Istvan Bibo was a prominent Hungarian intellectual; professor of political studies in the University of Szeged and Director of the Social Science Institute which was closed in 1949; Minister of State in the Imre Nagy government; arrested in 1957 and sentenced to life in prison. After being granted amnesty in 1963, he worked in a library and retired in 1971. He published The Third Road (London, 1960) and Paralysis of International Institutions and the Remedies (London, 1976). He was sentenced in 1957 for his Manifesto to the nation and a Draft on a "compromise to resolve the Hungarian question" (both in 1956), and his Recollections (1957).

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