Cold Civil War

The published collection includes articles of the leading Hungarian sociologists and political scientists. We have an attempt to an intellectually responsible and politically unpredictive description of the socio-political processes occurring in Hungary after the "velvet" change of regime at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. It would seem that deprived of that direct drama, which was characteristic of transient processes in the Balkans, the Hungarian situation is characterized simultaneously unique and symptomatic for many modernizing societies by political tensions bordering a social split. Its characteristic is in public disappointments, almost inevitably arising in the path of democratization. Its uniqueness is that the parties are not so much appealed to one or another social strata, how many new social communities design, relying on populist political practices