ساختن اصالت در مجارستان شوروی: زندگی پس از جمهوری شوروی اول مجارستان در عصر سوسیالیسم دولتی (سری آنتهم در مطالعات روسی، اروپای شرقی و اوراسیا)

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 insights on how a dictatorship remembers and the concept of authenticity, Apor's study integrates the broad range of processes through which history is sought to be rendered authentic. The volume successfully reveals the crooked history of the retrospective revisions of the iconic First Republic between the years of its 30th and 40th anniversary, 1949 and 1959. 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. 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. Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary Title Copyright CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION 1 2 3 Chapter 1 PREFIGURATION: THE FIRST HUNGARIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC AND THE RÁKOSI DICTATORSHIP BEFORE 1956 1 2 3 4 Chapter 2 RESURRECTION: THE EMERGENCE OF 1919 AND THE COUNTERREVOLUTION AFTER 1956 1 2 3 Chapter 3 LIVES: 1919 IN THE POSTWAR TRIALS OF WAR CRIMINALS 1 2 3 Chapter 4 FUNERAL: THE BIRTH OF THE PANTHEON OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN BUDAPEST 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Chapter 5 NARRATION: HISTORY, FICTION AND PROOF IN THE REPRESENTATION OF THE FIRST HUNGARIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC, 1959–1965 1 2 3 4 5 6 Epilogue THE AGITATORS AND THE ARMOURED TRAIN INDEX 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