Memory in Hungarian Fascism
A Cultural History
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Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural Historyargues that fascist memory had a key role in the historical formation and later return of fascism.Tracing the trajectory of a perennial figure of fascist memory, the cult of Eszter Sólymosi, from interwar Hungary through the Cold War West to contemporary Hungary, the book covers a century of fascism and offers a unique combination of fascism studies and memory studies.
How did fascists challenge liberal memory after the First World War? How did the memory culture they created come to frame and feed the Second World War and the genocide? In what ways did fascist memory transform as they navigated the challenges of exile in a profoundly changed political landscape and tried to counter the postwar order? And what role did their legacy, carefully crafted for a post-Communist future, play as later neo-fascists rejected democratic transformation? Eventually, as fascist memory traveled across time and space, the book argues, it contributed to the political challenges that we face today.
Based on a variety of unpublished sources, the book offers new insights for students of memory, Holocaust, fascism, and antisemitism studies, Jewish studies, Central and Eastern European history, and Hungarian studies.
About this Author
Zoltán Kékesiis a cultural historian of Central and Eastern Europe. His publications includeAgents of Liberation.Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film(2015). He works as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University College London.
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