Discourses of Contemporary History in Hungary after 1989

Bibliographic Data

ID6186027
AuthorsJános Rainer M (Hungary)
Year2017
Volume44
Issue2-3
Pages216-248
Publication date2017-12-11
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEast Central Europe (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3037 • E-ISSN: 1876-3308
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/18763308-04402011
OpenAlexW2771600851
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited1

The study examines Hungarian historiography since the Hungarian democratic transformation. Its main question is how Hungarian history writing was able to reformulate itself during the short period after 1989. In academic and public discourse one can observe parallel processes of de-ideologization and re-ideologization towards a one-sided commitment to the national(istic) viewpoint. The study starts by setting the general scene and examining the politics of memory within the fields of general focus, i.e., the discourses of memory politics and institutions. Afterwards, it discusses two focal themes in greater detail: 1956 and the Kádár era on one hand, and the Horthy era on the other. The discussion follows the order in which these themes emerged in the discourse. It also contains a short overview of the memory politics linked to the given theme as well as the various currents in history writing, narrating and interpreting these important issues of the national historical canon

Aesthetics · Art · Canon · Contemporary history · Democracy · Focus (optics) · Historiography · Literature · Modern history · National history · Order (exchange) · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Social science · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy

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