Fabricating authenticity in Soviet Hungary : the afterlife of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic in the age of state socialism /

This book explores the memory of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, which proved crucial for communist Hungarian political culture in the twentieth century. Apor approaches the topic in an innovative way, focusing on the understudied aspects of European memory cultures. Offering great insi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Apor, Péter
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: London : Anthem Press 2013.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1gxpf42
Table of 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.