by Ma Ngok. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990. / Bibliography: leaves [168]-[172] / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.i / ABSTRACTS --- p.iii / LIST OF APPENDICES --- p.v / INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- CRISIS AND DEVELOPMENT´ؤ A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1 --- What is a Crisis? --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Crisis and Development --- p.6 / Chapter 1.3 --- The Crisis Mechanism --- p.8 / Chapter 1.4 --- A Synthesis --- p.12 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- METHODOLOGY --- p.16 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Case of Hungary --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Time Frame --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3 --- Major Variables and Operationalisation --- p.20 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- "HUNGARY, 1950-56" --- p.23 / Chapter 3.1 --- The Stalinist Era as Antecedent System --- p.23 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- The Ruling Coalition --- p.23 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- The Development Strategy --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2 --- The New Course Period --- p.27 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Resources and Coalitions --- p.27 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- The Development Strategy --- p.31 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- The New Course as Environmental Change --- p.32 / Chapter 3.3 --- Further Environmental Changes --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- The Opposition in the Making --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- The Accelerators --- p.36 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- "THE CRISIS STAGE, OCTOBER 23 TO NOVEMBER 4" --- p.39 / Chapter 4.1 --- "October 23-25, Stalinists Still in Power" --- p.40 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- The Course of Events --- p.40 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Coalitions and Resources --- p.42 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Coalitions and Positions --- p.47 / Chapter 4.2 --- "October 26-28, A Period of Transition" --- p.52 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- The Course of Events --- p.52 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Coalitions and Resources --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Coalitions and Positions --- p.57 / Chapter 4.3 --- "October 28 to November 4, Seven Days of Freedom" --- p.61 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- The Course of Events --- p.62 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Change in Resource Distribution --- p.66 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- The Councils and Nagy's Turn --- p.68 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- The Soviet Decision --- p.72 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- The Kadar Decision --- p.76 / Chapter 4.4 --- A Recapitulation --- p.80 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- Resources and Coalition Reformation --- p.80 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- The Role of Coercive Resources --- p.81 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Issue Polarisation --- p.83 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE --- "EARLY POST-REVOLUTIONARY HUNGARY, 1957-1965" --- p.87 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Politics of Restoration --- p.87 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Coalitions and Resources --- p.87 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- The Reigning Ideology --- p.93 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Political Restraints of Reform --- p.98 / Chapter 5.2 --- The Economic Reforms --- p.100 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- The Major Reform Directions --- p.101 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- The Nature of Reform --- p.104 / Chapter 5.3 --- Political Restraints and Nature of Reform --- p.106 / Chapter CHAPTER SIX --- CONCLUSION --- p.109 / Chapter 6.1 --- Analysis of the Hungarian Crisis --- p.109 / Chapter 6.2 --- Crisis and Development in Hungary --- p.111 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- The Posterisis Environment --- p.111 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Effects on Early Postcrisis Stage --- p.112 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Effects on Further Reforms --- p.114 / Chapter 6.3 --- Crisis and Development--A Theoretical Discussion --- p.118 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Methodological Considerations --- p.118 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- The Uniqueness of the Hungarian Case --- p.119 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- An Explanatory Framework --- p.122 / EPILOGUE --- p.127 / NOTES --- p.129 / BIBLIOGRAPHY / APPENDICES