Historical Knowledge Production Cultures in Late Socialist Hungary and Croatia

Réka Krizmanics

doi:10.5771/9781666933246

Summary

Historical Knowledge Production Cultures in Late Socialist Hungary and Croatia: Expertise Unsettled offers a comparative study and analysis from the Hungarian case, and integrating academic, party, and popular historiography into a single analytical framework. Narratives concerning the history of the interwar period and the Second World War, and circumstances of their elaboration are at the forefront of this study. Réka Krizmanics argues that even within state socialist Eastern Europe, different enabling and restrictive factors were at play, and investigates the specificities of late socialism while embedding them in the context of their interwar, Stalinist and post-Stalinist legacies. “Expertise Unsettled” refers to the growing peril of historians, who proved to be often divided among themselves, and were increasingly on the defense as a guild, when literature, cinema, and interested non-professionals got involved in making and criticizing narratives of the recent past. Party history and party historians have been often sidelined in intellectual history, but the author argues that their inclusion is crucial both for a more complex understanding of what (late) state socialism meant for historians and to historicize practices of contemporary post-socialist, especially illiberal memory regimes.

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3323-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3324-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 240
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Legitimate Conveyors of History(?) No access
2. A Note on Key Terms No access
3. The Structure of the Study No access
4. Why (Dis)continuities Matter No access
5. Notes No access
1. Interwar and Stalinist Institutional Characteristics and Their Afterlives: An Overview No access
2. 1. Academies of Sciences (and Arts) No access
  2. Universities No access
  3. Party History Institutes: The Quest for Ideological Cohesion in Contemporary Historical Research No access
3. The Scene of Academic Publicity: Professional Associations and Journals No access
4. Career Paths and Working Conditions No access
5. The International Embeddedness of Historical Knowledge Production: State Socialist and Transsystemic Contacts No access
6. Conclusions No access
7. Notes No access
1. The Party-State Is Concerned: Transmission Bands between the Party and Historians No access
2. Theorizing Socialist National Consciousness No access
3. 1. Shaping Consciousness and Monitoring Results No access
4. Policing Publication: Expression of (Historical) Thought Under Constraints No access
5. Conclusions No access
6. Notes No access
1. Topical Emphases and Controversies Concerning Recent History No access
2. The Birth of the Postwar State No access
3. The Political Nature of Interwar Regimes No access
4. The History of the Workers’ Movement in the Interwar Period No access
5. 1. Collaboration and Participation in the Holocaust No access
  2. The Partisan Movements and (Attempts at) Self-Liberation No access
  3. Interethnic Violence on the Territory of Yugoslavia No access
  4. New Trends and Marginality: Theoretical and Methodological Innovations in the Hungarian and Croatian Historiographies No access
6. Conclusions No access
7. Notes No access
1. Popular History in Its Many Forms: The Locus and Importance of Expertise No access
2. 1. Literary Depictions of Historical Thought and Events: Two Cases No access
  2. Cinema and Recent History No access
3. Conclusions No access
4. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. Legislating History and the Dawn of an Illiberal Memory Regime in Hungary No access
2. Radical Publicity: Rescuing Public-Facing History No access
3. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 205 - 234
Index No access Pages 235 - 238
About the Author No access Pages 239 - 240