This paper argues that the fanatical will and power that hypnotised people in Eastern Europe during Communism was initiated by the activities of a Jungian archetype: the trickster-clown. Furthermore, in comparison with this, the paper develops an alternate figure based on the work of Max Weber:...

Based on six national representative surveys conducted in Hungary in between 1977 and 1997 using the Rokeach value test, this article tries to assess the extent to which the communist period left a 'stamp' on the preferences of basic human values.