The Long 1968 in Hungary and Romania.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Matus, Adrian-George, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--Hungary--History--20th century.

Social movements.

Social movements--Romania--History--20th century.

Hungary--History--1945-1989.

Hungary.

Romania--History--1945-1989.

Romania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

Summary:

This book advances a local, regional, and comparative analysis of the history of the sixty-eighters from Hungary and Romania between 1956 and 1975. The aim of the book is to answer to the following research question: to what extent does 'the long 1968' mark and change protest history? Another axis of my research, equally important, is: how can one genuinely distinguish between a protest, an opposition, and a pastime? Where did radicalisation truly begin, and when was it solely an auto-perception as a dissident? In other words, how can one truly distinguish between a leisure activity like listening to Radio Free Europe or exploring an altered state of consciousness, and an explicit political activity like organising a protest or writing subversive texts? Among other aims, the books's scope is to understand where a leisure activity ends, and a protest starts. By 'practicing counterculture,' did the youth wish to contest the system or simply express themselves? As method, oral history plays a crucial part. On a superficial level, the interviews helped to fill in the archival gap. However, oral testimonies proved to reveal much more than essential factual information. Oral history clarified how political and social events influenced the subjects' memory formation.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Content

Acknowledgments

Part I: Context(s)

1 The Childhood of a Generation

2 (De)Forming Institutions

Part II: "A Nylon Curtain"?

3 Media and "the Nylon Curtain"

4 Rocking the Socialist State through Magnets and Tape Records

Part III: Ultra-Left and Mystical Revolutions

5 Unexpected Models: Lukács and Eliade

6 Mystical Revolution in Romania

7 General Conclusions

Appendix A - List of Names

Appendix B - Primary Sources Description

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed April 2, 2024).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

PhD European University,Florence 2022.

ISBN:

9783111272931

3111272931

OCLC:

1415892126