Múlt nélküli történelem. A magyar demokratikus ellenzék független történelmi emlékezete
History without a Past: The Independent Historical Memory of the Hungarian Democratic Opposition

Summary/Abstract: The way the Hungarian dissident groups of “democratic opposition” viewed history had been determined by their antagonistic position to the Kádár regime. They fundamentally differed in their judgment from the communists on the following major issues: the post-1945 era, Stalinism, the revolution of 1956, the “compromise” with the Kádár regime, economic development, the national question, reasons of the East-West divide, just as the chances of organizing an anti-regime opposition. They diametrically opposed the regime on issues in judging the present and evaluating the perspectives of the future. However, they were thinking similarly in that they rarely looked back to the pre-1945 past. Since both the power-holders and the anti-regime opposition refused the pre-1945 political regime, the opposition did not fully question the offi cial interpretation of history. Rather, the dissidents rejected the self-defi nition of the Kádár regime and its historical and political foundations.

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