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Fabricating authenticity in Soviet Hungary : the afterlife of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic in the age of state socialism / Péter Apor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Apor, Péter, author.
- Series:
- Anthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- Dictatorship.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Communism.
- Authenticity (Philosophy).
- Political culture.
- Collective memory.
- Memory--Political aspects.
- Hungary--History--Revolution, 1918-1919--Influence.
- Hungary.
- Hungary--Politics and government--1918-1945.
- Politics and government.
- Hungary--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Memory--Political aspects--Hungary--History--20th century.
- Memory.
- Collective memory--Hungary--History--20th century.
- Political culture--Hungary--History--20th century.
- Authenticity (Philosophy)--Political aspects--Hungary--History--20th century.
- Communism--Hungary--History--20th century.
- Dictatorship--Social aspects--Hungary--History--20th century.
- Hungary--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 215 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- In recent decades the study of memory has become central to the historical discipline as a powerful conceptual tool to assess both the political-ideological implications of social constructions of the past and the writing of history itself. Yet most of these investigations focus on post-dictatorial situations and suggest ways to understand how these societies confront their controversial and often traumatic past. This incisive book examines a detailed case of a profound rethinking of history: The representation of Béla Kun's First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 as it was performed by the re-establishing Communist authorities following the 1956 revolution in Hungary. Apor's innovative approach focuses on authenticity as the crucial concept in establishing the success or failure of memory constructions, and asks the questions: how does a dictatorship remember? Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Prefiguration : the First Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Rákosi dictatorship before 1956
- Resurrection : the emergence of 1919 and the counterrevolution after 1956
- Lives : 1919 in the postwar trials of war criminals
- Funeral : the birth of the pantheon of the labour movement in Budapest
- Narration : history, fiction and proof in the representation of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1959-65
- Epilogue: The agitators and the armoured train.
- Notes:
- "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857281104
- 0857281100
- OCLC:
- 852832956
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