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The Long 1968 in Hungary and Romania / Adrian-George Matus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 online resource (XII, 289 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111253091
  • 9783111273488
  • 9783111272931
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/409439 23/eng/20240214
LOC classification:
  • HN420.5.Z9 S6263 2024
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Content -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Context(s) -- 1 The Childhood of a Generation -- 2 (De)Forming Institutions -- Part II: “A Nylon Curtain”? -- 3 Media and “the Nylon Curtain” -- 4 Rocking the Socialist State through Magnets and Tape Records -- Part III: Ultra-Left and Mystical Revolutions -- 5 Unexpected Models: Lukács and Eliade -- 6 Mystical Revolution in Romania -- 7 General Conclusions -- Appendix A – List of Names -- Appendix B – Primary Sources Description -- References -- Index
Dissertation note: PhD European University,Florence 2022. Summary: This book advances a local, regional, and comparative analysis of the history of the sixty-eighters from Hungary and Romania between 1956 and 1975. The aim of the book is to answer to the following research question: to what extent does ‘the long 1968’ mark and change protest history? Another axis of my research, equally important, is: how can one genuinely distinguish between a protest, an opposition, and a pastime? Where did radicalisation truly begin, and when was it solely an auto-perception as a dissident? In other words, how can one truly distinguish between a leisure activity like listening to Radio Free Europe or exploring an altered state of consciousness, and an explicit political activity like organising a protest or writing subversive texts? Among other aims, the books’s scope is to understand where a leisure activity ends, and a protest starts. By ‘practicing counterculture,’ did the youth wish to contest the system or simply express themselves? As method, oral history plays a crucial part. On a superficial level, the interviews helped to fill in the archival gap. However, oral testimonies proved to reveal much more than essential factual information. Oral history clarified how political and social events influenced the subjects' memory formation.

PhD European University,Florence 2022.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Content -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Context(s) -- 1 The Childhood of a Generation -- 2 (De)Forming Institutions -- Part II: “A Nylon Curtain”? -- 3 Media and “the Nylon Curtain” -- 4 Rocking the Socialist State through Magnets and Tape Records -- Part III: Ultra-Left and Mystical Revolutions -- 5 Unexpected Models: Lukács and Eliade -- 6 Mystical Revolution in Romania -- 7 General Conclusions -- Appendix A – List of Names -- Appendix B – Primary Sources Description -- References -- Index

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This book advances a local, regional, and comparative analysis of the history of the sixty-eighters from Hungary and Romania between 1956 and 1975. The aim of the book is to answer to the following research question: to what extent does ‘the long 1968’ mark and change protest history? Another axis of my research, equally important, is: how can one genuinely distinguish between a protest, an opposition, and a pastime? Where did radicalisation truly begin, and when was it solely an auto-perception as a dissident? In other words, how can one truly distinguish between a leisure activity like listening to Radio Free Europe or exploring an altered state of consciousness, and an explicit political activity like organising a protest or writing subversive texts? Among other aims, the books’s scope is to understand where a leisure activity ends, and a protest starts. By ‘practicing counterculture,’ did the youth wish to contest the system or simply express themselves? As method, oral history plays a crucial part. On a superficial level, the interviews helped to fill in the archival gap. However, oral testimonies proved to reveal much more than essential factual information. Oral history clarified how political and social events influenced the subjects' memory formation.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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