Revisionist histories, ‘future memories’: Far-right memorialization practices in Hungary

Andrea Pető*

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Using two case studies under the Christian-conservative Orbán government, this essay explores how ‘future memories’ are being constructed and sustained by revisionist history writing about the history of communism, especially in instrumentalist memories using pedagogical instruments: the secondary literature curriculum and the Museum of Trianon. It argues that canonization revised by counter canonization is necessarily opening space for revisionism.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)41-51
Number of pages11
JournalEuropean Politics and Society
Volume18
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jan 2017

Keywords

  • Hungary
  • Revisionist history writing
  • far-right politics
  • memory politics
  • ‘future memories’

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