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From Making the Glory to Facing the Decay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2020

Iván Zoltán Dénes
Iván Zoltán Dénes*
Affiliation:
Henrik Marczali Research Team, Budapest, Hungary. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

What were the main characteristics of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Hungarian collective identity and memory political debates? They were no longer determined by the discourse of liberal-rights-extending assimilation, yet public speech was also not entirely determined by the ethnicist–essentialist subject matter of the interwar national characterology discourse; rather, the internal dilemma of the rights-extending assimilation was externalized. There were some who sought to advance the extension of rights in the direction of suffrage. Others held on to rights extension in the hope of assimilation and believed they could promote it through establishing institutions of public education. Others abided by rights-extending assimilation, but interpreted it in terms of individual cultural achievements. Yet others believed that their fears of historical Hungary falling apart and the decay of the national middle class could be counterbalanced by curtailing or revoking nationalities’ rights and exclusionary policies against them. This article focuses on four different types of forging a collective identity: programmes, master narratives, political languages, strategies and regimes of memory.

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European Review , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , December 2020 , pp. 850 - 868
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© Academia Europaea 2020

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