Title: Imre Nagy, martyr of the nation : contested history, legitimacy, and popular memory in Hungary /
Authors: Benziger, Karl P., 1956-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Nagy, Imre,; Nagy, Imre, Death and burial.; Collective memory Hungary.; Memorialization Hungary.; Hungary History; Hungary Politics and government
Abstract: Imre Nagy is a compelling figure both in life and in death--one whose actions stimulated consequences in Hungary that continue into the present. Providing a summary review of Hungarian Cold War history, the author examines the ways in which the memory of the martyred prime minister and the story of the 1956 revolution influenced political socialization in Hungary.
Contents: The funeral of Imre Nagy: the meaning of 1956 in 1989 -- An unlikely hero -- Imre Nagy and the Revolution of 1956: a fatal gamble -- Reaction, compromise, tentative legitimacy -- The demand for memorial -- The Imre Nagy Bill and the politics of memory -- Imre Nagy, textbooks, and the next generation -- Epilogue: Restless heroes and the continued debate over history and memory.