Historical Knowledge Production Cultures in Late Socialist Hungary - Expertise Unsettled

This book compares the ecologies of historical knowledge in late socialist Hungary and Croatia. Its integrated analytical framework - academic, party, and popular history - is an innovative attempt to grasp the unique uncertainties surrounding the making of narratives and knowledge about the recent past in state socialist Eastern Europe.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Post-Stalinist Practices of Coexistence: Academies, Universities, and Party History Institutes
Chapter Two: Directive, Suggestion, Arbitration: Recent History at the Juncture of Politics of Culture and Science
Chapter Three: Conflicting Accounts? Party and Academic Historiography on the Interwar Period and the Second World War
Chapter Four: Meddlers and Allies: Coping with "Non-Professional" Narratives
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Réka Krizmanics

Product details

• Authors: Reka Krizmanics, Réka Krizmanics
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666933239
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-323-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Croatia, Historiography, Hungary