Remembering and Forgetting Communism in Hungary - Studies on Collective Memory and Memory Politics in Context

"Prof. Pók's book, written with a real literary talent, systematizes a huge historical bibliography, and also clarifies key issues for the history of Hungary and provides answers for the past of the Central Europe." Florin Abraham, Member of the Board of the Romanian National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives

"Excellent, captivating and uncompromising book about us and our past, one of the most significant restatements of our thinking... The essays challenge our views and stereotypes and they are a pleasure to read. If any work has a chance to correct the distortions of our memory, this is it."

Roman Holec, senior researcher of the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Tartalomjegyzék:

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
I. WANTING THE PAST
The Memory of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe
Shaping Communist and Post-Communist Identities: History and Memory
Historical Scholarship in Hungary 1945-2016
II. KNOWING THE PAST
Radical Democratic Criticism of the Dualist Austro-Hungarian Monarchy - Seen from Today
Lajos Kossuth and Early 20th Century Hungarian Progressists
Principal Trends of Interpreting the First World War
Hungary - a Traumatized State and Nation
Hitler Meets Horthy: Six Encounters that Shook Hungary
Ira populi: Targets of Popular Hatred and Scapegoats in Hungary 1944 - 1956
The Year 1956 - A Watershed in Central European History
III. CHANGING THE PAST
Marxism in Post-Communist East-Central European Historical Writing
Symbolic Geography: The Politics of Writing European History in East-Central Europe
The Holocaust and the Search for Scapegoats in Post - 1989 Hungary
The Genesis of Anti-Communism in Hungary
Mitteleuropa (1915-2004)
Conclusion: The Challenge of European History
Name and Place Index