Introduction

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Notes

  ¹István Rév, Retroactive Justice (California, 2005), 7; István Deák, ‘Historiography of the countries of Eastern Europe: Hungary’, American Historical Review, xcvii, 4 (October 1992), 1063.

  ²Eric Hobsbawm, On History (London, 1999), 7. Hobsbawm's lecture ‘Outside and inside history’ was also published in the New York Review of Books, xl, 21 (16 December 1993).

  ³Rév, op. cit., 3.

  ⁴For a recent discussion see Tony Judt, ‘The past is another country: myth and memory in post-war Europe’ in István Deák, Jan T. Gross and Tony Judt (eds), The Politics of Retribution in Europe (New Jersey, 2000).

  ⁵Zsuzsanna Kőrösi and Adrienne Molnar, Carrying a Secret in My Heart (Budapest, 2003), 142.

  ⁶The declaration also stated: ‘The Revolution of 1956 laid [the] foundation for the hope that it is possible to achieve a democratic social order, and that no sacrifice for our country's independence is made in vain. Although the ensuing suppression reinstated the old power structure, it could not eradicate the spirit of 1956 from people's minds.’ Quoted in György Litván (ed.), The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (London, 1996), x.

  ⁷ ibid., xiv.

  ⁸Deák, op. cit.

  ⁹Andrea Pető and Judith Szapor, ‘The state of women's and gender history in eastern Europe: the case of Hungary’, Journal of Women's History, xix, 1 (2007), 161.

  ¹⁰Péter Hanák, The Garden and the Workshop (New Jersey, 1998), x, xiii.

  ¹¹See István Bibó, ‘Reflections on the social development of Europe’ in István Bibó, Democracy, Revolution, Self-determination (New York, 1991); Jenő Szücs, ‘The three historical regions of Europe’, Acta Historica Academiae Scientarium Hungaricae, xxix, 2–4 (1983), 131–84; Péter Hanák, ‘Central Europe: a historical region in modern times’ in George Schöpflin and Nancy Wood (eds), In Search of Central Europe (Cambridge, 1989); Balázs A. Szelényi, The Failure of the Central European Bourgeoisie: New Perspectives on Hungarian History (New York, 2006).

  ¹²Pető and Szapor, op. cit., 162–3.