num_pages: 305
description: Deals with recent Hungarian history and particularly how that history is exploited in the first post-communist years in the 1990s, focusing on the 1956 Hungarian uprising and how the memory of this event has influenced Hungarian political thought. Follows the narrative of 1956 not only through the problems of history writing but also in everyday politics of the 1990s, looking at political transition, new collective identities and post-communism, nationalism, and the debates of historical justice after communism. Lacks a subject index. Author credentials are not given. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: The Presence of the Past in Politics : '1956' after 1956 in Hungary
titlecomplete: The Presence of the Past in Politics : '1956' after 1956 in Hungary
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Sophi