The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism

by Michael Burawoy

Book Overview

Communism, once heralded as the "radiant future" of all humanity, has now become part of Eastern Europe's past. What does the record say about the legacy of communism as an organizational system?

Michael Burawoy and Janos Lukacs consider this question from the standpoint of the Hungarian working class. Between 1983 and 1990 the authors carried out intensive studies in two core Hungarian industries, machine building and steel production, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226080420
• ISBN13: 9780226080420
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"