Információk egy fiktív esetről - magyar és szovjet közegben. Guszev kapitány és társainak ügye történettudományi munkákban az 1940-1980-as években
Information flow on a fictive event. The case of Captain Gusev in the Hungarian and Soviet historiography

Summary/Abstract: From the mid-1940s onwards, Hungarian writer Béla Illés started to present as a historical fact a never happened event: the pro-Hungarian and anti-tsarist activity of some Russian soldiers, led by captain Aleksei Gusev, during the 1848–49 war of independence. Illés and his colleagues elaborated a variety of methods to authenticate the fi ction. Thanks to their activities and to the legitimacy needs of the emerging Stalinist dictatorship in Hungary, the fanciful fi gures were included into the new ideological pantheon as the living symbols of “Soviet–Hungarian friendship”. This study presents how these appeared in this fi ction, and how individual authors indicated the source of their information and dealt with the fact that the story is a fi ctive one. Beyond the specifi c case analysed, the article suggests a more general refl ection on how the same information may be spread in diff erent media context.

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