ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the self-reflection, identity, and strategic concepts as those developed in the public discourse of the democratic opposition in Hungary. By public discourse I mean “the forms of expression typical to an era or the collection of rules related to the usage of these forms, generated and maintained by a smaller circle of intellectuals, the elite of humanities.” 1 Since the state socialist regime was constructed on an all-encompassing, salvationist ideology, culture was always an important terrain of control for communist leaders. 2
