Victims and Traditions
Victims and Traditions

Narratives of Hungarian National History After the Age of Extremes

Author(s): Ferenc Laczó
Subject(s): Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), History of Communism, History of the Holocaust, Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: historiography;post-communism;Hungary;memory;
Summary/Abstract: The following chapter explores how the Holocaust of 1944 and the end of the communist revolutionary project in 1989 are constructed in terms of their contemporary relevance in Hungary to thereby discuss some key questions of historical explanation and narrative coherence in post-communist times. My focus will be on major trends, key disagreements, and recent changes in Holocaust remembrance and the meanings assigned to 1989. I shall conceive of Holocaust remembrance as intimately linked to the issue of historical responsibility whereas I shall treat the remembrance of 1989 as a crucial problem of historical orientation that also has a decisive political stake.

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