Habersack, Sabine - Puşcaş, Vasile - Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Democraţia in Europa centrală şi de Sud-Est - Aspiraţie şi realitate (Secolele XIX-XX) (Satu Mare, 2001)
Szász Zoltán: Încercări de democratizare în Ungaria secolului XX.
presence of Soviet troups offered hegemony for communist party, an impediment for a wholesome balance; the self-organization of the society was weak - asociations, religious groups etc.). The Rákosi regime couldn't make modernization, not because of the sabotage. They tried to introduce the Soviet example, to make from a poor Hungary “the land of iron and steel”, cotton plantations or the ridiculous attempt to produce oranges...Anyhow, the rapid bankruptcy of the stalinist modernization had, as main result, the breaking of the party and the revolutionary explosion from October 1956. At the end of 80's it became obvious that without political democratization it is imposible to do national democratization. Of course, we cannot ignore the Gorbatschov effect and the politic opposition. After 1989, the government emancipated itself from the trusteeship of the leading party. A possible conclusion concerning the Hungarian XX-th century is that the economical development doesn't mean automatically a healthy development of society, democratization. Also, a significant role belongs to the European attendance, to the European governments. Szász Zoltán 44
