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On the legal features of the Hungarian socialist councils, detailing thematically the legal frameworks and institutions of the Soviet-type public administration. In the present paper, the theoretical basis and the actual operation of the local councils is described, involving their relationship to other state organs as well as the historical criticism of political one-party guidance and personality cult over them. This article focuses on democratic centralism as the leading theory of socialist representation, the place of councils in the science of socialist public administration and in the parallel state party structure. The political determination with regard to local councils is also discussed in a case study of Szeged city.
