Hungary

Although the publication of Marx’ and Engels’ works enjoyed a long tradition in Hungary, it was not until 1972 that the complete Grundrisse was published with the title A politikai gazdaságtan bírálatának alapvonalai [Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy]. First the Social Democratic Party of Hungary, and later the Communist Party of Hungary, made every possible effort to deliver Marx and Engels’ works to the widest possible audience. After 1945, the publishing house ‘Szikra’ (from the Leninist ‘Iskra’) issued the works in a quick and steady succession and released several editions of Marx and Engels’ writings in large quantities. The complete Hungarian translation of Capital was published around the same time. From the text of the Grundrisse, however, only two excerpts were translated as part of the series ‘Small Library of MarxismLeninism’. The first, in 1951, was the ‘Introduction’ of 1857, the second, in 1953, was ‘Forms which Precede Capitalist Production’.