Philip Scranton is University Board of Governors Professor Emeritus, History of Industry and Technology, at Rutgers University, USA. His publications include fourteen books and seventy scholarly articles, multiple contributions to exhibit catalogs, and numerous reviews of books and conferences.

Preface.- Chapter 1 - Introduction: Hungary: Geography, History and Society to 1945.- Chapter 2- The Theft Economy: Occupation and Forced Industrialization.- Chapter 3 - Agriculture from Stalinism to the Revolt.- Chapter 4 - An Unfinished Project: Constructing Socialist Construction.- Chapter 5 - Socialist Commerce: Provisioning, Coping, Maneuvering and Trading.- Chapter 6 - Hungary's Socialist Industrialization: A Snare and a Delusion.- Chapter 7 - The Revolt: Spontaneity, Repression and Reaction.- Chapter 8 - Afterword.