Nagy Imre és Kádár János. A politikai ellenállás és együttműködés paradoxonjai
Imre Nagy and János Kádár. Paradoxes of Political Resistance and Cooperation

Summary/Abstract: Historical consciousness leaning towards symbolic thinking attaches just as great importance to epoch-representing personalities as to culturally established caesuras or spectacular political gestures. Very often these serve as orientation points to measure actors, events and also origins and consequences of the processes. The political personae of Imre Nagy and János Kádár with their complex and enigmatic attitudes stand out from the cultic, symbolic political figures of Hungarian history after 1945. The simplest, quasi-complementary topoi associated with them are the image of the “unwillingly rebellious” and the “retaliatory-pacificator”. The continual rethinking of these highly compressed notions can help us get closer to understanding the dynamics of historical rebellion and the need for political status quo. When comparing the activities of the two politicians, one must not ignore the fact that these crossed each other in the interplay of mutually diverging Soviet strategies. Therefore, the question is not only what their inherent political origins were, but also what directions they were forced to take by the circumstances.

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