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Ez a kötet egy különleges és kivételes életű nőről szól. A magyar történelem nem bővelkedik kiemelkedő női politikusokban, de még ők is gyakran feledésbe merülnek a hazai emlékezetpolitikai csatározásokban. Rajk Júlia élete is folyamatosan árnyékba került mivel sehova sem lehetett besorolni a mindig is megosztott magyar közéletben. Kommunistának túl kritikus volt, ellenzékinek túl kommunista. Nőnek túl magas és túl híres. Rajk Júlia árulással, börtönnel, erőszakkal, elhallgatással és szenvedéssel teli élettörténetét végigkísérik a 20. századi magyar történelem sorsfordító eseményei. Földi Júlia néven született, az illegalitásban ismerkedett meg Rajk Lászlóval, majd a későbbi belügyminiszter feleségeként fontos politikai pozíciókat vállalt 1945 és 1949 között. Miután férjét ártatlanul kivégezték, ő maga öt évre börtönbe került, nevét elvesztette, fiától elszakították, munkahelyéről elbocsátották. Szabadulása után egyetlen cél éltette: hogy megszerezze "saját nevét", amely együtt járt a fiáért és férje rehabilitációjáért való küzdelemmel. Végül a Nagy Imre körét sújtó romániai fogságból hazatérve Rajk Júlia lett: a Kádár-rendszer politikai ellenzékének önálló - és gyakran öntörvényű - szereplője, aki rendíthetetlenül hitte, hogy az emberi szolidaritás érték, és hogy az egyenlőtlenségek és igazságtalanságok ellen harcolni kell. Az utókor azonban hajlamos a férjek vagy épp a fiak fontosságában mérni a nők életét. Rajk Júliát férje árnyéka egyszerre védte és eltakarta, miközben meghatározta nyilvános cselekvési terét is. Minden a rendelkezésre állt, hogy a magyar történelem egyik sokat ünnepelt kulcsfigurája legyen, mégsem így történt. Hogy miért, erről szól Pető Andrea közel két évtizede megjelent monográfiájának javított és az új források tükrében átdolgozott kiadása.
This volume is about a special and extraordinary woman. Hungarian history does not abound with outstanding women politicians, but even they are often forgotten in the national political battles of memory. Júlia Rajk's life has also been constantly overshadowed by the fact that she could not be classified anywhere in the always divided Hungarian public life. She was too critical for a communist, too communist for an oppositionist. Too tall and too famous for a woman. Júlia Rajk's life story of betrayal, imprisonment, violence, silence and suffering is traced through the fate-turning events of 20th century Hungarian history. Born as Júlia Földi, she met László Rajk in illegality, and later took up important political positions as the wife of the future Interior Minister between 1945 and 1949. After her husband was innocently executed, she herself was imprisoned for five years, lost her name, was separated from her son and dismissed from her job. After her release, she was driven by a single goal: to regain her 'own name', which went hand in hand with the struggle for her son and her husband's rehabilitation. Finally, after returning from imprisonment in Romania, where Imre Nagy was imprisoned, she became Julia Rajk: an independent - and often self-righteous - figure in the political opposition to the Kádár regime, who firmly believed in the value of human solidarity and the need to fight inequality and injustice. But posterity tends to measure women's lives in terms of the importance of husbands or even sons. Juliet Rajk was both protected and obscured by her husband's shadow, while also defining her public sphere of action. Everything was in place for her to become one of the much celebrated key figures in Hungarian history, but she did not. The reason why -this is the subject of this revised edition of Andrea Pető's monograph, published nearly two decades ago and revised in the light of new sources.
This volume is about a special and extraordinary woman. Hungarian history does not abound with outstanding women politicians, but even they are often forgotten in the national political battles of memory. Júlia Rajk's life has also been constantly overshadowed by the fact that she could not be classified anywhere in the always divided Hungarian public life. She was too critical for a communist, too communist for an oppositionist. Too tall and too famous for a woman. Júlia Rajk's life story of betrayal, imprisonment, violence, silence and suffering is traced through the fate-turning events of 20th century Hungarian history. Born as Júlia Földi, she met László Rajk in illegality, and later took up important political positions as the wife of the future Interior Minister between 1945 and 1949. After her husband was innocently executed, she herself was imprisoned for five years, lost her name, was separated from her son and dismissed from her job. After her release, she was driven by a single goal: to regain her 'own name', which went hand in hand with the struggle for her son and her husband's rehabilitation. Finally, after returning from imprisonment in Romania, where Imre Nagy was imprisoned, she became Julia Rajk: an independent - and often self-righteous - figure in the political opposition to the Kádár regime, who firmly believed in the value of human solidarity and the need to fight inequality and injustice. But posterity tends to measure women's lives in terms of the importance of husbands or even sons. Juliet Rajk was both protected and obscured by her husband's shadow, while also defining her public sphere of action. Everything was in place for her to become one of the much celebrated key figures in Hungarian history, but she did not. The reason why -this is the subject of this revised edition of Andrea Pető's monograph, published nearly two decades ago and revised in the light of new sources.
Translated title of the contribution | In the shadow. The life of Julia Rajk |
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Original language | Hungarian |
Place of Publication | Budapest |
Publisher | Jaffa Kiadó |
Number of pages | 328 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-963-475-241-7 |
State | Published - 2020 |