Péter Apor

Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary

The Afterlife of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic in the Age of State Socialism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the memory of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, which proved crucial for communist Hungarian political culture throughout the twentieth century. Apor takes an innovative approach to understudied aspects of European memory cultures, focusing particularly on how a dictatorship remembers and the concept of authenticity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9781783084197
• ISBN-10: 1783084197
• Artikelnr.: 42232898

Autorenporträt

Péter Apor is a research fellow at the Institute of History in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Prefiguration: The First Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Rákosi Dictatorship before 1956
Chapter 2: Resurrection: The Emergence of 1919 and the Counterrevolution after 1956
Chapter 3: Lives: 1919 in the Postwar Trials of War Criminals
Chapter 4: Funeral: The Birth of the Pantheon of the Labour Movement in Budapest
Chapter 5: Narration: History, Fiction and Proof in the Representation of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1959-65
Epilogue: The Agitators and the Armoured Train
Index