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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Csikós, Gábor
• Horváth, Gergely Krisztián
• Kovács, József Ö.
• Kovács, József Ö

Titel

Introduction: Perspectives, Realms of Experience, and the Horizons of the Future

Ist Teil von

• The Sovietization of Rural Hungary, 1945-1980, 2023, Vol.1, p.1-16

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter considers experiential history to be an important historiographical paradigm because it allows scholars to form realistic historical images of subjects which were treated as undiscussable taboos during the decades of communist dictatorship. Terms like "land reform" and "the socialist reorganization of agriculture" have been employed in a manner more characteristic of political mythology than of scholarly reflection; like the uncritical use of the word "socialism," such terminology often obscures state violence, destructive social practices, and the lived experience of the masses. The terminology and conceptual framework we have used in our attempts to unravel this tangle of problems have been determined by the fact that communists throughout the world generally characterized their initiatives as products of the ideology of modernization. The use of the word "cooperative" is one of the most misleading legacies of the manner in which concepts could be transmuted into political mythologies.