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dc.contributor.authorMark, Jamesen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-23T14:37:47Zen_GB
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-20T14:13:22Z
dc.date.issued2007-01-17en_GB
dc.description.abstractUsing oral history, this contribution explores the reshaping of individuals' public and private autobiographies in response to different political environments. In particular, it analyses the testimony of those who were communists in Hungary between 1945 and 1956, examining how their experiences of fascism, party membership, the 1956 Revolution and the collapse of communism led them in each case to refashion their life stories. Moreover, it considers how their biographies played varying functions at different points in their lives: to express identification with communism, to articulate resistance and to communicate ambition before 1956; to protect themselves from the state after 1956; and to rehabilitate themselves morally in a society which stigmatised them after 1989.I didn't use this word 'liberation' (felszabadulás), because in 1956 my life really changed. Everybody's lives went through a great change, but mine especially. … I wasn't disgusted with myself that I had called the arrival of the Red Army in 1945 a liberation, but [after 1956] I didn't use it anymore.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVolume 58, Number 8, pp. 1209-1240en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09668130600995764en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10036/3094en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_GB
dc.subjectantifascismen_GB
dc.subject1956 Revolutionen_GB
dc.subjectautobiographiesen_GB
dc.subjectcommunismen_GB
dc.subjectHungaryen_GB
dc.titleAntifascism, the 1956 Revolution and the politics of communist autobiographies in Hungary 1944-2000en_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2011-05-23T14:37:47Zen_GB
dc.date.available2013-03-20T14:13:22Z
dc.identifier.issn0966-8136en_GB
dc.descriptionThis is a postprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Europe-Asia Studies © 2006 University of Glasgow; Europe-Asia Studies is available online at http://www.informaworld.com.en_GB
dc.identifier.eissn1465-3427en_GB
dc.identifier.journalEurope-Asia Studiesen_GB


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