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A critical reassessment of the standard reading of Georg Lukacs's History and Class Consciousness (Livingstone, Rodney [Tr], Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1971). The idea of "totality" presented there is seen not as antithetical to the later defense of literary realism but as continuous with it. Both realism & the consciousness of the proletariat appear in his writings as bearers of the force of dereification. A characteristic of modernist fiction is the attempt to represent totality while repudiating such older totalizing forms as the omniscient narrator. Current theorists largely repudiate totality as such. Lukacs seeks it through an exploration of the epistemological potentialities inherent in the positions of various social groups, a strategy that underlies his workerism. This approach, in his view, leads toward the future point at which Marxism would at last become possible, for which Lukacs sought to lay the groundwork. W. H. Stoddard

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, was founded during the period of détente in 1972 to bring together scientists from East and West to research shared problems, and thus to build a "bridge" between the two opposed systems. The underlying image of knowledge was in stark contrast to the intellectual culture established in East Germany. This article reconstructs East Germany's role at IIASA. Even if participation was considered important for displaying East German science, I argue that its contribution was caught up in the precepts of the western scholar as a class enemy. Using the records of the party and the Stasi, I show this along the best documented case, the economist Harry Maier, who was one of the few social scientists who visited IIASA for two years between 1978 and 1980, and then, in 1986, used a conference visit to escape from East Germany.

"Close study of the changing political responses of two peasant populations whose neighboring regions near the Pacific coast experienced different impacts from the Sandinista agrarian reforms. Shows the irony of some reform-beneficiaries turning against their benefactor-regime, a more likely event when productive relations become privatized. Argues, contra Huntington, that demobilization of various social groups will work against the achievement of development goals"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.