Imagining postcommunism : visual narratives of Hungary's 1956 Revolution / Beverly A. James.
"Although the 1956 Hungarian uprising failed to liberate the country from Soviet domination, it became a symbol of freedom for people throughout Eastern Europe and beyond." "In Imagining Postcommunism, Beverly A. James demonstrates how 1956 became a foundational myth according to whic...
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| Other title: | Visual narratives of Hungary's 1956 Revolution. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Eugenia and Hugh M. Stewart '26 series on Eastern Europe.
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Table of Contents:
- Visual recovery of a repressed past
- Budapest's Statue Park Museum
- The destruction of the Stalin monument
- Memorial to the martyrs of the counter-revolution
- The sanctification of Hungary's Jeanne d'Arc
- Museums and the objectification of memory
- Sculpting heroes in a post-radical age
- The persistence of narrative.