Originating in a conference hosted by the Political Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in March 1993 (but forming part of the East-West Programme of the British Economic and Social Research Council), this collection of essays is divided into two parts.
Michael Waller is British and was born in the industrial north of Yorkshire. After being asked to leave school by his Headmaster he began a varied work career. This went from Chemist to Dog Catcher with stints as a Bingo Caller and door-to-door Insurance Salesman in between. For twenty years he worked in the oil and chemical industry which took him to the Middle East and finally the USA where he is now retired and living in upstate New York.