![]() ![]() “From a closer look, all the important and long-lasting economic and social reforms in all the Central European countries appear as nothing but the legalization of already existing illegal and semilegal practices. But, as Rév pointed out, through endless acts of resistance, villagers in the countryside forced the regime to change. ![]() They are assumed to have few long-lasting consequences. “They must be able to write manifestoes, to leave written documents behind them they must be capable of giving a compact political analysis to the scientist who comes to interview them.” The strategies of survival that can to be found in the countryside in planned economies – pilfering, lying, slacking, stealing, bartering, trading – are seen to be “pre-political,” or merely reactive, if not downright “reactionary” in trying to revive the old order. Historical actors must possess “political consciousness,” or else they are unlikely to be granted much significance. As Istvan Rév, a historian of Hungary, noted some years ago, social scientists are attracted by political movements that have concrete, articulated aims. ![]()
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