Péter Apor

Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

How do you make abstract historical interpretations authentic? This question troubled communist party leaders and propaganda historians in Hungary following the restoration of dictatorship after 1956. Accordingly, this book investigates the crooked history of the retrospective state revisions of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic between the years of its 30th and 40th anniversary, 1949 and 1959.

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 postdictatorial situations, and suggest ways to understand how these societies confront their controversial and often traumatic pasts. In this volume, Péter Apor takes an in-depth look at a particular phenomenon - the First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 - to illustrate how a dictatorship and a communist state remembers. Unlike other works analysing social memory, this book concentrates on authenticity as the crucial concept in establishing the success or failure of memory constructions, integrating the broad range of processes - political, scholarly, artistic - through which history is sought to be rendered authentic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857281142
• Artikelnr.: 44360830

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