Magyar szociológiatörténeti füzetek, 2. (Budapest, 1986)

Summary

1937 He participates in the workers' education organized jointly by the Workers' Educational Association and the Extramural Delegacy of Oxford University and London University.

1939 September. His mother, Cecile Polányi, dies.

1939- 40 He gives lectures and seminaries in this academic

year for university courses organized by the Workers' Education Association (Morley College - London; Canterbury, Bexhill).

1940 April. Through the intervention of Josiah Wedgewood he is given British citizenship.

1940- 43 He is a resident lecturer for three years at

Bennington College, Vermont.

1940 He gives a lecture series on international political situation (Elmira College, Kenyon College, Kent State University, College of Wooster, Evenston College).

1941 He is granted a two-year Rockefeller fellowship for writing Great Transformation.

1943 He returns to England in the summer with Ilona Du- czynska. They make the acquaintance of Mihály Károlyi here.

In November he gives lecture entitled 'America in 1943' in 'The Friends of the New Democratic Hunqary Club'.

1944 April. He joins as an independent member the Hungarian Council in England led by Károlyi.

1944 The first edition of The Great Transformation appears in New York.

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