Karl P. Benziger

Imre Nagy, Martyr of the Nation (eBook, PDF)

Contested History, Legitimacy, and Popular Memory in Hungary

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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, Benziger examines the ways in which the memory of the martyred prime minister and the story of the 1956 Revolution influenced political socialization in Hungary. The book begins with Nagy's 1989 funeral and the role memorialization played in the politics of transition, continuing with a review of the important personages and events that informed Nagy's life and afterlife, and it concludes in the tumultuous politics following the establishment of the Republic in 1989. Readers interested in Central and Eastern Europe will find this book useful as it expands the literature on history and memory, and transition politics in the region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216310778
• Artikelnr.: 75139123

Autorenporträt

Karl P. Benziger is an associate professor in the Department of History at Rhode Island College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Funeral of Imre Nagy: The Meaning of 1956 in 1989
Chapter 3 An Unlikely Hero
Chapter 4 Imre Nagy and the Revolution of 1956: A Fatal Gamble
Chapter 5 Reaction, Compromise, Tentative Legitimacy
Chapter 6 The Demand for Memorial
Chapter 7 The Imre Nagy Bill and the Politics of Memory
Chapter 8 Imre Nagy, Textbooks, and the Next Generation
Chapter 9 Epilogue: Restless Heroes and the Continued Debate over History
and Memory