The Hungarian parliamentary elections of April 2026 brought an end to sixteen years of uninterrupted rule by Viktor Orbán. The scale of the shift was considerable. With turnout approaching 80 per cent—the highest in post-1989 Hungary—the opposition force led by Péter Magyar secured a two-thirds parliamentary majority, displacing Fidesz from a position it had appeared to consolidate durably over more than a decade. The result was not a marginal correction but a decisive reconfiguration of the (…)

Between late 1879 and early 1880, Marx filled a notebook with reading notes on Mykola Kostomarov's study of the Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate of the 1650s. The manuscript was suppressed under Stalin, publicly announced by Ukrainian Bolshevik leader Mykola Skrypnyk in 1929, and not published until 1993. A recent article by Galenkin Roman Maksymovich on the Ukrainian website Res Publica — here introduced by Vincent Présumey — reconstructs Marx's analysis from those notes. What emerges is a Marx (…)

This article reconstructs Karl Marx's reading of seventeenth-century Ukrainian history from his notes on Mykola Kostomarov's study The Hetmanate of Vyhovsky, written at the end of 1879 and the beginning of 1880. The manuscript was suppressed in the Soviet period after Mykola Skrypnyk announced its existence in 1929, and first published in independent Ukraine only in 1993 Drawing on Engels's analyses of the German Peasant War, the Polish question, and the use of class war as an instrument (…)