Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary: The Afterlife of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic in the Age of State Socialism

Péter Apor

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.

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Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary

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

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations
pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-26

Chapter 1 - Prefiguration: The First Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Rákosi Dictatorship before 1956
pp 27-60

Chapter 2 - Resurrection: The Emergence of 1919 and the Counterrevolution after 1956
pp 61-100

Chapter 3 - Lives: 1919 in the Postwar Trials of War Criminals
pp 101-124

Chapter 4 - Funeral: The Birth of the Pantheon of the Labour Movement in Budapest
pp 125-164

Chapter 5 - Narration: History, Fiction and Proof in the Representation of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1959–65
pp 165-198

Epilogue - The Agitators and the Armoured Train
pp 199-208

Index
pp 209-215

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