The Hungarian Academy of Sciences started in 1972 the first professional journal of sociology in Hungary, Szociológia. This was replaced by the journal of the Hungarian Sociological Association, Szociológiai Szemle in 1991. The International Congress of 1994 in Bielefeld offers the editors a good opportunity to present Hungarian sociology by publishing a special English language issue. This contains articles and research reports from the past two years, which discussed the issues that emerged or became reformulated in the process of system-change: privatisation in the economy and in public rental housing, the consequences of economic decline and growing unemployment, the history and the present position of the middle class, local politics, the alternatives for a reform of the health service, the situation of women, ethnic minorities and refugees in Hungary.