A hitelesség fabrikálása: Az 1919 és 1956 közti történelmi folytonosság megformálása
The fabrication of authenticity: constructing the counterrevolutionary continuity in post-1956 Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The article explores a case of rendering abstract historical representations authentic: the modes Hungarian communist party historians, propagandists and historico-politicians attempted to support their construction of the counterrevolution by various types of visual, material and textual evidence. The post-1956 Hungarian communist party elite construed a historical continuity from the fall of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 to the alleged counterrevolution in 1956, which functioned as a major tool justifying their authority. The essay examines how various techniques and forms of historical representation and practices of evidence – photographies, museum exhibitons, textual arguments – were used to render the abstract interpretation tangible, credible, thus, authentic.

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