Of all the bonds that combine to sustain a nation, memory is perhaps the most essential. It ensures that most of the other bonds – language, loyalties, poetry and songs, shared sacrifices – are extended through time. They continue to
Arnold Toynbee, the deservedly famous British historian and philosopher, in his monumental A Study of History described the rise and fall of dozens of civilisations. Based upon that model it is easy to predict the fall of our western civilisation. But that was predicted already
1 Had he lived to see it, the Hungarian 1956 would have also been George Orwell’s Revolution. His most acute, but also most generous mind would have understood and appreciated
The missing 1956–57 part of the Diary of Gyula Illyés (1902–1983) was found in the attic of the family house in Buda, in April 2014, in an envelope, hidden among miscellaneous papers in a wooden box. It covers the days of the Revolution
MEMORANDUM: HUNGARY , A SCANDAL AND A HOPE OF THE WORLD1 Excerpts István Bibó The social and political thinker István Bibó (1911-1979) was a Minister of State in the last Imre Nagy government of 1956, delegated by the re-established
IMRE NAGY AND THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION1 Excerpt CHAPTER 9 REVOLUTION When Mikoyan deposed Rákosi on 17 July and sent him into exile in the Soviet Union, he was removing from the scene the strongest personality in Hungarian political life. Rákosi was hated, discredited. His judgement had failed, he was on
INTERVIEW WITH ISTVÁN B . RÁCZ, 19571 Columbia University Research Project Hungary, 1957–59 István B. Rácz was born in Túrkeve, Hungary, in 1923. He was educated at the local Jewish school because his mother knew
MY REVOLUTION Recollections of the 1956 Revolution* Part II “IF THE RUSSIANS RETURN, WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT” János Martonyi “Student meeting! Tonight at 7.00 p.m. at the latest, we want
In the war the Gestapo laid hands on Mitzi’s possessions in Austria, and after the war the Communists laid hands on her possessions behind the Iron Curtain. Real estate, it
At noon on 31 October 1956, the streets of Ferencváros, like the rest of the Budapest, were free of fighting. The Red Army, who twelve years before had smashed its way into the city, was gone. It had been just a week earlier (24
BREAKING DAWN 1956–2016 An Exhibition at the Balassi Institute* In the whole word, on every map and globe, your name is transcribed today, Budapest. This word does not denote a city any
FROM OUR READERS A Flesh and Bone Martyr of the 20th Century Zoltán Szobonya was a 45-year-old lawyer in a small town in southern Hungary when the uprising against the
ZSOLT CZAKÓ Graphic design, photography and typography play an equally important role in the oeuvre of Zsolt Czakó. He has always been crossing the boundaries between art and design and has
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