Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Prefiguration: The First Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Rakosi 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
The first book to confront the Hungarian state's problematic remembrance of 1919 under communism, unravelling the connections between how a dictatorship remembers and the authenticity of constructed memory.
Peter Apor is a research fellow at the Institute of History in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
'Peter Apor offers innovative, theoretically grounded interpretations of the Communist memory politics. This book is an important work on the history of East European Communism.' -Gabor Gyani, Research Professor, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Visiting Professor, Central European University 'The memory of the Communist past is a major issue today - Peter Apor reverses the question and reminds us how the Communists themselves distorted national memories. This original book offers a good example of how to deconstruct these sophisticated policies of history.' -Henry Rousso, Senior Researcher, Institut d'histoire du temps present, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) '"Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary" follows the intricate thread of the long afterlife of a short but deeply controversial historical event. The book forcefully argues that under the condition of politically induced retrospective uncertainty, all historical facts become suspect of fabrication.' -Istvan Rev, Professor of History, Central European University
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