Riba András László: Hatalomtechnika a pártállam végóráiban, 1987-1989 - RETÖRKI könyvek 47. (Budapest, 2021)
Summary
235 Summary Summary Techniques of power in the final hours of the party state (1987−1989) The theme of our book is the analysis of the background of the political decision making institutes and organization of the party state, which mainly examines the last period of the Kádár era directly preceding the regime change by working up of the accessible primary sources. In the political history dealing with this period the dominant feature is the reconstruction of the process on the basis of the history of the events. Most historians recognize and emphasize the demand for the comprehensive elaboration of the background of the system but its elaborated and basically institute-centred approaches are accessible sporadically, in most cases the memoirs of the contemporary political, public figures or in monographs based on the sources of the state party. In the period preceding the regime change (1987−1989) the political, power crises following 1945 and the most important points of the attempts at the correction of the system are imminent in the decision preparing and making in the activity of the state party. The research formulated the demand for the revelation of the power structure by examining the institutes and decision making mechanism of the power embedded in the events of the regime change and tried to demonstrate the final stage of the party state of Károly Grósz during the process of the correction of the system referring to the motives of the decisive political, power changes in the period following the Second World War. It makes an attempt to illustrate the importance of the modified relation of the state party, the government and the Parliament from special methodological points of view and by an alternative analysis of the sources. In the analysis of the formation of the power we concentrate on phenomena and circumstances which do not have adequately prominent role in the works dealing with the end of the party state and the regime
