Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1973 (1. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)
1973 / 2. szám
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Dr. George Barany, Prof, of History, U. of Denver, received support under contract from the U.S. Office of Education, Institute of International Studies, to write a comprehensive one volume history of modern Hungary. Barany intends to weave three closely ralated topics into one general theme: the social problems, the development of Magyar nationalism, and the decling of Hungary’s liberal traditions. Barany is author of Stephen Széchenyi and the Awakening of Hungarian Nationalism, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS Sociology and Eastern Europe (see HSN, Spring 1973 issue) in its December-February 1973 issue (Vol. 5, No. 3), publishes a summary article on The Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (pages 26-28), based on a report prepared by Dr. Kalman Kulcsár, Director of the Institute. The article describes the activities of the institute between 1969 and 1971. The 1963-68 activities of the institute were covered in Vol. 3, No. 1 of Scoiology of Eastern Europe. According to the present report, research during the period under review focused on (a) the structural problems of socialist society, (b) the social aspects of organizations, (c) the social aspects of urbanization, and (d) the theoretical development of Marxist sociology. 1791-1841. (Princeton U. Press, 1968.) Dr. Thomas R. Mark, Prof, of English, Colorado State U., Fort Collins, is working on the critical interpretation of Imre Madach and his opus major, The Tragedy of Man. He has already published several essays on Madach and is planning to write more taking the intellectual background of Mada'ch’s time into consideration. Mark is planning 6 months of research in Hungary and perhaps a translation of The Tragedy of Man. John Komlos, a doctoral candidate at the U. of Chicago, prepared ‘‘Bibliography of Dissertations Concerning Hungarian History Completed Since 1920 in Selected Countries," to be published in Volume IX of the Austrian History Yearbook. The compilation was conceived to encourage research in the field of Hungarian history by deliniating the progress made in terms of dissertations, most of them unpublished, and by facilitating the use of existing data. The bibliography includes dissertations and theses prepared for academic degrees in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Degrees are conceived as Ph.D. and Masters in North America, and Doctorát de Specialite, Doctorat d’Etat, Doctorat de l’Universite', Dissertationen, and Habilitations-schriften in Europe. Chronological bounds are 1920 and the present, but dissertations in progress are not included. The author gave a broad definition to history, including numerous works which have but a marginal bearing on the field. On the other hand, only works which seemed to be primarily concerned with the Kingdom of Hungary or State of Hungary are included. EXCHANGE SCHOLARS NEEDED Dr. John P.C. Matthews, Deputy Director of International Research and Exchange Board informed us that IREX is seeking a larger number of American scholars (advanced graduate students to full professor) willing to apply for the academic exchange program which IREX conducts with HUNGARY. (For details see HSN no. 1.) IREX is seeking more scholars of non- Hungarian origin for the exchange. To this end, it is willing to waive its current requirement that applicants have command of the Hungarian language, particularly in cases where most of the Hungarian scholars with whom the American scholar would beworking know English. Fellowships from three months to a full academic year, beginning September 1974, are available. Requests for applications should be addressed to IREX, 110 East 59th Street, New York, N. Y. 10022. The deadline for filing completed applications is November 15, 1973. KODALY-fContinued from page 7) Kodály concept by Denise Bacon for $3.00, plus 50<P postage. A Newsletter is published regularly on activities, and new information on the method. This is mailed on a complimentary basis. BOOKS (Continued from page 5) of major elements of the financial systems of the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland. It provides orientation in financial plans and planning, with special attention to the state budget, and in aggregative economic reporting in the form of national income and input-output tables. The bulk of the report is devoted to the state budget, its role in the economy, the principles of financing that link various enterprise and publis expenditures to the state budget, and composition of budget revenues and expenditures. Marer, Paul. SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN FOREIGN TRADE, 1946-1969; STATISTICAL COMPENDIUM AND GUIDE. Bloomington, IN: Indiana U., 1972. 408 pages. $15.00 This reference volume presents comprehensive data on the value of foreign trade of individual East European countries during the period 1946-1969. The data are variously arranged in aggregative terms, by country or region of origin and destination, or by structure according to a number of commodity classifications. Each table is a complete or abridged reproduction of data contained in the computerized Data Bank of the IDRC (see next issue of HSN). Nine East European countries are documented individually, including the Soviet Union. Trade flows of the nine countries represent about 11 percent of world trade. In 1970, the region’s total exports and imports each amounted to more than $30 billion. The statistics presented are the most comprehensive collection compiled in the West. The data has been standardized according to the nomenclature in which they were originally compiled by the national statistical offices of the reporting countries: the CEMA Trade Nomenclature or the Standard International Trade Classification. The former data have been converted when possible into the latter system, and both transformed into the United Nations, NEW TRADE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM. The data re organized into 252 one-page tables, which have been photoreduced from computer printouts. The tables are grouped into five sets, each termed a Series, with the following contents: (1) Total trade by origin and destination; (2) Commodity composition of total trade; (3) Commodity composition of trade by East European trade partners; (4) Commodity composition of trade with total West Europe; and (5) Special supplement for Hungary and Poland. 8 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER
