István Márkus

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Stephen Marcus ( Budapest, 1920 . September 9 - Budapest , 1997 . October 21 ) Hungarian sociologist, critic, editor.

From 1945 he was the editor of Free Word and Reality. In 1948 he became assistant professor at the University of Economics, taught there for three years, imprisoned in 1951-52, and was not given a job after his release in 1953. Due to his involvement in the 1956 Revolution, he was sent to prison again between 1957 and 1961, originally sentenced to 10 years in prison, released amnesty. After the fall of the revolution Marcus Stephen was already in custody when the Writers' Union for the main accused had to testify Imre Nagy loaded et al 1956 revolution and war of independence role. [1]

After his release, he wrote an article about Imre Sarkadi in the 1962 year of the literary journal Kortárs, this article launched a great debate among literary writers, many of whom took part in the dispute, including Ernő Gondos , László B. Nagy , Tibor Cseres ( Contemporary, 1962 / No. 9). In the following he mainly worked as a writer of youth and sociography, and examined Hungarian reality from an economic, political and social psychological point of view. In 1983 he became a candidate for sociological sciences.

The regime change after joined the public interest debates, such as "The replica circuit issues a bourgeois concept of" co-authors: Bácskai Vera, Gyula Benda , Gabriella Gáspár , Gábor Gyáni , Laszlo Kosa , Tibor Kuczi , Agnes Losonczi , Peter Niedermüller , Arpad Szakolczai , Tőkéczki László. [2]