Balázs Eszter: Art in action. Lajos Kassák's Avant-Garde Journals from A Tett to Dokumentum, 1915-1927 - The avant-garde and its journals 3. (Budapest, 2017)
Gábor Dobó: Generation Change, Synthesis and a Programme for a New Society - Dokumentum in Budapest (1926-1927)
Dokumentum looked on the USA and the Soviet Union as embodiments of the ideal future state (adding the Jewish settlements in Palestine, adduced as examples specifically in this sense). One article declared “with some certainty" that “in America, the outlines of a future type of person and of coming society are becoming manifest". It also regarded the Soviet Union as “an experiment on broad foundations” in “the new social order” and “the new culture”.25 Dokumentum did not resolve the contradictions between its overall left-wing stance and its articles on the states of the future. The latter did not rank capitalist states and the Soviet Union according to a hierarchy, but rather identified many common features in their political, social and economic systems.26 27 Their tendencies towards economic and social uniformity, and their efficiency and pace of development were highlighted and praised. The explanation for the unresolved contradiction is that Dokumentum emphasized the obsolescence of the European economic and social model in contrast with the USA and the Soviet Union, a perspective that dwarfed the fundamental differences between the two emerging powers. [Figs. 16-17] [14.] [Farkas Molnár], Város [City], Dokumentum, 1/1., 1926, 20., Budapest [15.] El Lissitzky, Orator’s pulpit, Dokumentum, 1/3., 1927, 20., Budapest 25 Paul Wengraf, Európa fejlődési lehetőségei [Europe's potential for development], Dokumentum, 1/4., 1927, 4. 26 Balázs Sipos, Amerika mint modernizációs példa, utópia és disztópia a Horthy-korban [America as an example, utopia and dystopia of modernization in the Horthy era], Médiakutató, 16/1., 2015, 73-88. István FeitI (ed.), Nyitott/zárt Magyarország, Politikai és kulturális orientáció, 1914-1949 [Open/closed Hungary, Political and cultural orientation, 1914-1949], Napvilág, Budapest, 2013. 27 Paul Wengraf, Európa fejlődési lehetőségei, op. cit., 5. 224
