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075864
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2006.
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Using oral history, this contribution explores the reshaping of individuals' public and private autobiographies in response to different political environments. In particular, it analyses the testimony of those who were communists in Hungary between 1945 and 1956, examining how their experiences of fascism, party membership, the 1956 Revolution and the collapse of communism led them in each case to refashion their life stories. Moreover, it considers how their biographies played varying functions at different points in their lives: to express identification with communism, to articulate resistance and to communicate ambition before 1956; to protect themselves from the state after 1956; and to rehabilitate themselves morally in a society which stigmatised them after 1989.
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ID:
058485
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058480
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ID:
075863
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2006.
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This contribution discusses a variety of different factors that have influenced the historical memory of the 1956 revolution in Hungary and the range of different interpretations that have made up the discourse on it. It explores the consequences of the post-1956 repression and the 'enforced historical amnesia' that was maintained by the Kádár regime. It then reviews the controversies and disputes between different accounts of the revolution relating to differences in the personal experiences of participants and the different ideologies and outlooks of different political parties as they compete to utilise the legacy of 1956 for their own political programmes. It concludes that there are still rival, irreconcilable images of the 1956 revolution in contemporary Hungary and this seems to offer some support for the post-modern belief in the variability of historical narratives as a consequence of the democratisation of the past, and the variations of memories of the past.
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075865
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2006.
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In 1956, a deep political crisis developed in Poland. The power elite was paralysed by internal conflicts and public feelings were strongly anti-Soviet. The Kremlin viewed this situation with concern. On 19 October, the Soviet leadership sent a top-level delegation to Warsaw to prevent changes in the Politburo which they feared might lead to Poland's secession from the Soviet bloc. Simultaneously, Soviet troops located in Poland started an advance towards Warsaw. After the dramatic talks between Khrushchev and Gomu?ka Soviet intervention was ceased but it took several more days before the Kremlin gave up an armed-intervention solution in Poland. It was China's firm objection to it and the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution that made Soviet military engagement in Poland impossible
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058482
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ID:
058483
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058484
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