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Magyar Szemle (Hungarian Review), Vol. XIX., Nos. 5-6., June 2010, Budapest.

Editor-in Chief: Gyula Kodolányi

Publisher: György Granasztói.

Published by Magyar Szemle Foundation.

Ferenc Kulin, literary historian, Former Chairman of the Cultural Committee, Parliament, Budapest. Victory. In a revolutionary election victory, Viktor Orbán at the head of Fidesz Civic Party and the Christian Democrats has fulfilled the hopes of the 1990 government coalition of József Antall: to create a two-thirds centrist majority for Hungarian democracy, in equal distance from the former Communists (Socialists) and the radical right of Jobbik.

Péter Ákos Bod, economist, Former Governor of the Hungarian National Bank, Budapest. Tasks of the New Government, Tasks for All of Us. In its triumphant mood, the new government and its immense electorate should transcend their deeply ingrained opposition habits, and set to work along well designed strategies that are destined to lift the country and the nation from its crisis.

Gáspár Gróh, writer, Head of the Office of the Former President, Budapest. AStrange Election. Awide ranging analysis of the phenomenon of the April 2010 election, its overture and its aftermath, with a look at the political processes of Hungary during twenty years of Transition.

Béla Petrik, lawyer, historian, Budapest. About a Meeting That Failed to Happen. Asecond Monor Meeting of the wings of the Hungarian underground opposition failed to take place in 1987, when the leaders of the left-liberal „samisdat" democrats published a pamphlet that envisaged a reform of the communist system rather than the radical change esposed by the national democrats of the later Hungarian Democratic Forum. The author uses unpublished secret police reports to bolster his argument.

Gábor Ujváry, historian, Dean, Kodolányi János University, Székesfehérvár. „Lived Fifty-Seven Years, Worked a Century". On the Public Image and Actuality of Kunó Klebelsberg, Part II. Count Klebelsberg, the most prominent Hungarian Minister of Public Education after Baron József Eötvös, built thousands of village schools in the Twenties, and laid the foundations of a modern educational system. He was a true democrat and encouraged and sponsored modern thought and art, often transcending the limitations of his own taste and upbringing.

Sándor Romano Rácz, writer and scholar, Roma activist, Budapest. Why Gipsies Have No Historical Consciousness? Awell-written essay gives deep insight into the nature of the imagination and social consciousness of the Hungarian Roma.