Imagining Postcommunism: Visual Narratives of Hungary's 1956 Revolution

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Italic typeface indicates pages with photographs Boldizsár, Iván, 47 Boros, Géza, 172n2 Budapest Communist Party headquarters . See Hungarian revolution (1956), siege of Budapest Communist Party headquarters Budapest History Museum: damaged Chain Bridge lion, 161; “The Resurrection of a City Twice Leveled by Bombs (in 1945 and 1956),” 160–61 Camus, Albert, 137; “Kádár Had His Day of Fear,” 137–38 Carlyle, Thomas, 163 cemeteries, 37–38. See also Section 301 collective amnesia, 13. See also forgetting, forced; Hungarian revolution (1956), suppression of memory of Committee for Historical Justice, 99 communism: collective memory of, 8; fall of, 6, 22 communists: consolidation of power, 7; master narrative of history , 6, 77–78; persecution of peasantry, 152–53, 156 commutation legislation. See Dávid, Ibolya, and commutation legislation INDEX Aczél, Tamás, 53, 55 Alliance of Former Political Prisoners , 98, 99 Alliance of Free Democrats, 7, 30 Anderson, Benedict, 5 A Pál Utcai Fiúk (Molnár), 104 Arato, Andrew, 107 Arendt, Hannah, 163 Armistice Day, 110 artifacts. See objects Asztalos, János, 70 ÁVO (Államvédelmi Osztály), 3, 9, 61, 171n1 Bachmann, Gábor, and László Rajk, 178n5 Balázs, Béla, 43 Bánffyné, Györgyi Kalavszky, 118– 19, 126–28 Barthes, Roland, 4, 52, 79 Bartók, Béla, 43 Beck, András, 51 Béla Kun memorial (Varga), 26, 28, 155, 172n5 Benedek, István, 175n6 Benedikty-Horvát, Tamás, 89 Benjamin, Walter, 138 Bertók, László, “Quiet Life,” 177n3 Beszélő, 30 Blume, Peter, The Eternal City, 40 Bohlen, Charles, 126, 134, 135 Bókai, Bátor, 102 Contemporary History Museum, 113, 114 Corvin Köz 1956 (Pongrátz), 119, 176n4 counter-revolution: as communists’ master narrative, 65–66, 78; monuments to, 61, 173n1; museum exhibit of, 113; as rhetorical term, 5, 13, 54, 73, 78, 154 Csete, György, 123 Csontváry, Tivadar Kosztka, Finch Downed by a Hawk, 126, 127, 176n8 Csurka, István, 133 Dávid, Ibolya, 98, 100, 102, 103, 108, 167; and commutation legislation , 85, 100, 107, 109 Derkovits, Gyula, For Bread, 57, 59 Debrecen conference on monuments , 29 Demján, Sándor, 157 Déry, Tibor, 10 discourse, 15–16 Domonkos, Béla. See Ilona Tóth dream theater, 51 Dulles, John Foster, 126–27, 134 Eagleton, Terry, 101, 151 Eisenhower, Dwight David, 126–27, 134, 135 Eleőd, Ákos, 25, 34, 35 Eörsi, László, 175n6 epideictic, 19, 40, 58–59 Erkel, Ferenc: Hunyadi László, 173n5 Esbenshade, Richard, 6, 28–29 The Eternal City (Peter Blume), 40 European Union, 33 Faludy, György, 124 Family Statue (Kisfaludi Strobl), 41 Fejér, Béla, 157 FIDESZ-Hungarian Civic Party, 3, 7 Finch Downed by a Hawk (Csontv áry), 126, 127, 176n8 Finta, József, 158 Fisher, Walter, 16, 164 folklore museum (Mátyásföld), 19, 83, 85, 91, 93–94 For Bread (Derkovits), 57, 59 forgetting: as culturally constitutive , 28; forced, 35, 80. See also collective amnesia; Hungarian revolution (1956), suppression of memory of Foucault, Michel, 15 Fulford, Robert, 17 Gáli, József, 175nn4, 5 Garton Ash, Timothy, 6 Gáspár, Sándor, 74 Gerő, Ernő, 11, 12 Gimes, Miklós, 177n1 Gönczi, Ferenc, 175n5 Görgey, Artúr, 45 Görgey, Gábor, “Requium, 1956,” 137, 138 Grósz, Károly, 14, 146 Gyáni, Gábor, 171n3 Gyenes, Judith, 114, 176n1 Gyenes, Pál, 175n6 Gyöngyösi, Miklós, 175n5 Győrfi, Lajos, The Kid from Pest, 128, 130 György, Péter, 155 Hajnali Háztetők (Ottlik), 174n3 Halbwachs, Maurice, 4 Hall, Stuart, 5, 15 Hammarskjold, Dag, 126 Hankó, Ildiko, 175n6 Hantos, János, 72 Haraszti, Miklós, 21 hero, 157; defined, 147; epic versus folk, 161–62; national, 147, 151; traditional versus poststructural view of, 162–63 Hollósy, Simon, Rákóczi March, 126, 176n8 Horthy, Miklós, 44 House of Terror Museum, 3–4, 4, 5, 6, 168 Hungarian Democratic Forum, 7, 30 196 index Hungarian National Museum, 114; 1956 exhibits, 115, 143, 164, 165 Hungarian revolution (1848), as source of imagery for 1956, 66–67 Hungarian revolution (1956), 12–13; atrocities committed during, 61, 65, 70; ceremonies commemorating , 110; conflicts over memory of, 8, 120; emergence of oppositional interpretations, 80; as foundational myth, 5–6; historical background to, 8–12; as “long revolution,” 36, 124; myths surrounding , 8, 63–64, 129, 171n4...