Hungarian Studies Newsletter, 1977 (5. évfolyam, 13-15. szám)
1977 / 14. szám
yflHUNGARIAN STUDIES ^^11 NEWSLETTER No. 14 Autumn 1977 Published three times a year: Winter, Spring and Autumn Editor: Dr. Bela C. Maday Journal Review Editor: Dr. Enikő' M. Basa Corresponding Editor: Dr. Lora'nt Czigány (London) Communications concerning content should be sent to the: EDITOR, HSN 4528 - 49th STREET, N.W. WASHINGTON, DC 20016 Annual subscription in the United States: $3.00; abroad $4.00. Current single copy $1.00; back issues $1.50 each. Communications concerning subscriptions, advertising and circulation should be sent to: HUNGARIAN RESEARCH CENTER AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FOUNDATION 177 SOMERSET STREET P.O. BOX 1084 NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ 08903 BOOKS (Continued) of the individual coop member against the interests of the collective unit and the state. After sketching the historical background, Part I. describes the structure of Hungarian agriculture;Part II develops alternative models of socialist cooperative farming; and Part III applies optimization technique of marginal analysis and mathematical formulae to alternative objectives of cooperative enterprises as socialist business corporations. The highly technical and quantitative study tries to provide answers to present agriculture-related problems in Hungary, while developing tools for the consideration of similar complexes. Dr. Fekete is Prof, of Economics at Karl Marx U., Budapest; Dr. Heady is Distinguished Prof, of Economics and Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State U.; and Dr. Holdren is Prof, of Economics at Iowa State U. Horchler, Frigyes. THE FUTURE OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN FOREIGN TRADE. Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche beim Österreichischen Institut für Wirtschaftsordnung. 1030 Wien, Arsenal Obj., Austria. 1975. 163 pages, charts, tables, n.p. (mimeo). Research Reports no. 27. The study reviews Austro-Hungarian economic relations focusing on foreign trade between 1965 and 1975. It tries to identify and document the implications of the Austrian freetrade agreement concluded with the EEC for Austrian- Hungarian trade. In seven chapters, 39 tables and 7 charts, the author discusses the Austrian economy and its relations to East European economies; Austro-Hungarian industrial cooperation, Hungary and the EEC in the Austrian market, and the hypothetical effect of Austrian-EEC agreement on Hungarian exports to Austria. The publication is part of a research report series, among which no. 22 by Adam Marton is in English dealing with Consumer Prices in Austria and Hungary 1945-1972. (1974). Dr. Horchler is the deputy director of the International Economic Relations Committee in Budapest. Király, Bela K. ed. TOLERANCE AND MOVEMENTS OF RELIGIOUS DISSENT IN EASTERN EUROPE. Columbia U. Press, 562 West 113 Street, New York, NY 10025, 1976. 227 pages. $12 cloth. No. 13 of the East European Quarterly’s East European Monographs; and No. 1 of Brooklyn College’s Studies on Society in Change. “The grouping of studies on religious intolerance in Christendom, Hasidic-Mitnagder polemics in the Jewish communities of East Central Europe and religious tolerance in East Central Europe present a historical perspective which has previously been lacking....” Contributors to the volume include Robert Kann, Frederick Heymann, Peter Brock, and Marianka Fousek. Király has two articles of his own. One on Protestantism in Hungary Between the Revolution and the Ausgleich, in which he discusses the "most militant and widespread move of defiance of Hungary since Világos” the resistance to the Concordat of 1855 and to the Protestant Patent of 1859. Though the Patent was repealed less than a year later, this was not a total victory for the Hungarians because by then 40% of the Lutheran parishes, and 1 % of the Reformed parishes accepted it. In his other article, The Sublime Porte, Vienna, Transylvania and the Dissemination of Protestant Reformation in Royai Hungary, Király concludes that the Protestant Reformation was a movement interdependent with Ottoman advance into central Hungary and the development of Transylvania as a separate state; that the struggle for freedom of conscience was interdependent with the striving for constitutional liberties and the freedoms of the individual; that neither the Reformation nor the Counter-Reformation was imposed by force; and that state power was not used to effect conversion in one way or another, with few exceptions. “In sum, the direct and indirect consequences of Protestantism in Hungary were progressive for intellectual life, education, culture and constitutional liberty, and were retrogressive in the social sphere.” The author is Prof, of History at Brooklyn College, City U. of New York. Mellor, Roy E.H. EASTERN EUROPE; A Geography of the Comecon Countries. Columbia U. Press, 562 West 113 Street, New York, NY 10025, 1975, 358 pages, illustr., tables, biblio. $17.50 cloth. This book examines the region as an entity, by systematically analyzing the major topics relevant to the area. With each such examination a general pattern is established and then significant local variations described. This method demonstrates the close interdependence of the countries of Eastern Europe. It acquaints the reader with common factors of the region before approaching the constituent countries and their present economies as individual units. A distinctive feature of the book is the review of the geographical implications of Comecon and the results of a generation of Sovietization. In addition to a subchapter on (Continued on page 3) NO. 14, 1977 HUNGARIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER 2
