Revising History in Communist Europe 9781785272080

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Автор: Reynolds David AJ
Название: Revising History in Communist Europe
ISBN: 9781785272080
Издательство: Anthem press
Классификация:

История Европы

ISBN-10: 178527208X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 250
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 31.01.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 236 x 161 x 17
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: Constructing counter-revolution in 1956 and 1968
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Поставляется из: США
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The context of both the 1956 Hungarian uprising and the Prague Spring was the torturous process of communist regimes tentatively revising the history of the recent communist past that had been constructed and imposed during the Stalinist period. This process of remembering and forgetting had the power to shake the legitimacy and authority of communist party-states because their monopoly on the interpretation of the past was so central to their control of the present.

Once the elaborate histories of the show trials and subsequent propaganda were undermined, the whole credibility of the regimes that had propagated them was likewise weakened. In the Prague Spring, this long-delayed historiographical reckoning was joined by an equally problematic connection between meanings of the past and definitions of the present. Czechoslovakias communist allies insisted on understanding and seeking to influence the Czechoslovak reform process through varied and changeable references to and analogies from Hungarys 1956 uprising. The purpose and nature of these loaded linkages between recent Hungarian past and Czechoslovak present changed according to circumstances and developments.

While the meanings of the 1956 uprising and the concomitant definitions of the 1968 Prague Spring also varied between Soviet and Hungarian analysts, they were alike resisted by Czechoslovak reformers seeking to chart a unique path to socialism. As they attempted to ground their policies in Czechoslovak history, they unsuccessfully rejected parallels with Hungarys. Ultimately, however, the dependence on historical analogies to decisively explain the present was also a vulnerability for those who employed them, as the gap between a constructed past and an untidy reality irresistibly emerged.

Revising History in Communist Europe, Reynolds David AJ