Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary

Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet HungaryThis 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.

and how vocabularies shape our access to the full spectrum of information about a topic

education and health care – was built up between 1880 and 1980 so that they were collectively paid for

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is considered by many to be his greatest collection of verse

More relevant than ever

unconventional social arrangements and shared intimacies between performer and audience

with the consensus of opinion among scholars as to its exact nature and influence shifting considerably over the years

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monologue work

Comprising his short unpublished autobiography

Each chapter presents a clear and relatively non-technical treatment of the specific topic under consideration