Introduction; Part I. Systemic Change: Adaption and Transformation: 1. From
vanguard to rearguard: the rise and decline of a ruling party, 1957-80; 2.
Economic reforms: from plan to market; 3. Social change: from latent
pluralism to civil society; Part II. Elite Politics: the Insurgents and the
Incumbents: 4. Opposition ideas, personalities and strategies; 5. Party
elites in transition: the successor generation; Part III. From
Postcommunism to Democracy: 6. Political succession in the HSWP: issues,
personalities and strategies, 1984-9; 7. Negotiated revolution: from the
opposition roundtable to the national roundtable; 8. The road to power:
political mobilization, party formation, and free elections in Hungary,
1989-90; 9. Democracy in Hungary: toward a new model?
