Imre Nagy On Communism: In Defence of the New Course.

Contents

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

FOREWORD / HUGH SETON-WATSON

INTRODUCTION

1 – A Few Timely Questions Regarding the Application of Marxism-Leninism

2 – The Peaceful Coexistence of the Two Systems

3 – The Five Basic Principles of International Relations and the Question of Our Foreign Policy

4 – Ethics and Morals in Hungarian Public Life

5 – Significance of the June, 1953, Party Resolution and Its Effect on Our Party

6 – Role and Significance of the March and April Party Resolutions

7 – Characteristic Features and Specific Traits of the New Course

8 – The Objective Economic Law of Socialist Development

9 – Socialist Expanded Secondary Production

10 – Productivity of Labor and Reduction of Production Cost

11 – Problems of Socialist Industrialization

12 – The Socialist Reorganization of Agriculture

13 – The Question of Independent Peasant Farms

14 – Production, Standard of Living, and Economic Planning

15 – The Question of National Indebtedness to Foreign Countries

16 – The Role and Significance of the NEP

17 – The Problems of the Worker-Peasant Federation and People’s Front

18 – State Discipline, Legality, and Collection of Agricultural Produce

19 – Culture, Literature, and Art

20 – Nationalism and Proletarian Internationalism

21 – National Defense and Pacifism

22 – The Question of the Relationship of Party and State

23 – The Evaluation of the Party’s Role and Achievements

24 – The Opposition: Its Methods, Forms, and Effects

25 – Adherence to the Rules of Party Life and the Question of Rehabilitation

EPILOGUE / GEORGE PALOCZI-HORVATH