Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Preface Growth, decline and recovery express what has happened to some of the most important heavy industrial regions in the western countries recently; following a dramatic economic decline, which started in the 1960s and terminated their centur>'-long dynamic expansion, these regions have...

Political Systems and Nationalism The Stalinist regimes of East Central Europe bom after 1948 did not offer opportunity for the so-called nation-states of the region to develop effective diplomatic channels to manage the problem of the national minorities. The relations of these states resembled...

On Historical Biographies Introductory Remarks 1. The masses and the creative individual Modem historiography discovered the role of the masses in history at the beginning of the 20th century. The historians, the children of the age themselves, felt mass phenomena in their everyday life, in the...

BY T.C. BARKER AND F.M.L. THOMPSON COMPLEMENTARY AND COMPETING TECHNOLOGIES: ROAD TRANSPORT BEFORE THE MOTOR It is well known that new technologies do not instantly replace the estabilished technologies for which thg- are substitues. This paper is written on a manual typewriter, although word...