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Past for the Eyes(Illustrated)
East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989
by Péter Apor, Oksana Sarkisova
Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2008 by Central European University Press
ISBN-13: 978-963-9776-05-0, ISBN: 963-9776-05-X

"How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history ended in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape publ ..."






Past for the Eyes
East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989
by Oksana Sarkisova, Péter Apor
436 Pages, Published 2013 by Central European University Press
ISBN-13: 978-615-5211-43-0, ISBN: 615-5211-43-4

"... krasnaia roza—emblema lyubvi, Sergei Soloviev, USSR, 1989) Bodyguard (Telokhranitel', Anatolii Ivanov, Russia, 1991) Brezhnev (Sergei Snezhkin, Russia, TV-film, 2005) Brother (Brat, Alexei Balabanov, Russia, 1997) Brother 2 (Brat 2, ..."






Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums
Re-Visualizing the Recent Past
by Constantin Iordachi, Péter Apor
304 Pages, Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-10371-9, ISBN: 1-350-10371-3

"31 See Lidija Merenik, Umetnost i vlast: srpsko slikarstvo 1945–1968 (Belgrade: Fond Vujičić kolekcija i Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2010), for the older literature on the topic. 32 The play was supposed to be staged in ..."






Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe
by Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth, James Mark
250 Pages, Published 2017 by Anthem Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-78308-724-2, ISBN: 1-78308-724-2

"The file containing the official IM's reports reveals that in 1986 Heinig carried out his first mission in Hungary, together with his partner, informer “Claudia Kaufmann,” who worked as an unofficial collaborator for the Mss.” During their three-week deployment, the couple met their operations officer six times and handed over a total of eight reports." The reports reveal that every evening, the couple visited the bigger and better ..."






Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe
by Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth, James Mark
250 Pages, Published 2017 by Anthem Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-78308-725-9, ISBN: 1-78308-725-0

"... social and political consequences. Susanne Choi and Roman David call this a “lustration system,” a theoretical abstraction of lustration laws that allows the authors to discuss methods, strategies and outcomes of lustration in a comprehensive way.28 Choi and David identify three lustration systems in the postcommunist context and ask: Which one can facilitate better democratic consolidation in posttotalitarian societies? The th ..."






Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary(Reprint)
The Afterlife of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic in the Age of State Socialism (Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies)
by Péter Apor
Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2015 by Anthem Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-78308-419-7, ISBN: 1-78308-419-7

"This book explores the memory of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, which proved crucial for communist Hungarian political culture in the twentieth century. Apor approaches the topic in an innovative way, focusing on the understudied aspects of European memory cultures. Offering great insights on how a dictatorship remembers and the concept of authenticity, Apor’s study integrates the broad range of processes through which his ..."






Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary : The Afterlife of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic in the Age of State Socialism
by Péter Apor
Digital, 230 Pages, Published 2014 by Anthem Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-85728-114-2, ISBN: 0-85728-114-3

"This book explores the memory of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, which proved crucial for communist Hungarian political culture in the twentieth century. Apor approaches the topic in an innovative way, focusing on the understudied aspects of European memory cultures. Offering great insights on how a dictatorship remembers and the concept of authenticity, Apor’s study integrates the broad range of processes through which his ..."






Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary
The Afterlife of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic in the Age of State Socialism (Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies)
by Péter Apor
Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 2014 by Anthem Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-85728-110-4, ISBN: 0-85728-110-0

"This book explores the memory of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, which proved crucial for communist Hungarian political culture in the twentieth century. Apor approaches the topic in an innovative way, focusing on the understudied aspects of European memory cultures. Offering great insights on how a dictatorship remembers and the concept of authenticity, Apor’s study integrates the broad range of processes through which his ..."






The Sovietization of Eastern Europe
New Perspectives on the Postwar Period
by Balzs Apor, Péter Apor, Rees E. A.
364 Pages, Published 2008 by New Acdemia+Orm
ISBN-13: 978-1-955835-31-2, ISBN: 1-955835-31-4

"(Re-) Konstruktion ostdeutscher Geschichte und Geschichtswissenschaft, (Leipzig, Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, 1994); Stefan Ebenfeld, Geschichte nach Plan? Die Instrumentalisierung der Geschichtswissenschaft in der DDR am Beispiel des ..."






Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums
Re-Visualizing the Recent Past
by Dr Constantin Iordachi, Péter Apor
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-10370-2, ISBN: 1-350-10370-5

"This volume offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the recent past in museums of the Second World War and of communism in post-communist Eastern Europe. It does so against the background of recent European-wide debates on history, memory and politics. The contributors from across Europe focus comparatively on a wide variety of case studies, pointing out similarities and differences, and accounting for transnational patterns ..."






Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe
(Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies)
by Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth, James Mark
Hardcover, 366 Pages, Published 2017 by Anthem Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-78308-723-5, ISBN: 1-78308-723-4

"Whilst debates over secret agents and the public revelation of lists of former collaborators have fascinated both post-Communist societies and the wider world, it is surprising how little has been written either on the nature of Communist-era collaboration or the processes through which post-Communist societies have sought to make sense of what collaboration was, and how it should be dealt with in the present. This is surprising given t ..."






The Sovietization of Eastern Europe
New Perspectives on the Postwar Period
by E. A. Rees, Balzs Apor, Pter Apor, Balazs Apor, Editor-Balázs Apor, Editor-Péter Apor
Paperback, 364 Pages, Published 2008 by New Academia Publishing/ The Spring
ISBN-13: 978-0-9800814-6-6, ISBN: 0-9800814-6-7

"This collection of essays offers a captivating reading on how East-Central Europe was transformed into the 'Other' Europe. It is the first attempt to systematically explore the sovietization process in Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Sovietization is generally understood in the book as a process with a dual dimension: it was in part an imperial project whereby the Soviet system was exported to the region, but it w ..."






Occupation and Communism in Eastern European Museums
Re-Visualizing the Recent Past
by Constantin Iordachi, Péter Apor
304 Pages, Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-10372-6, ISBN: 1-350-10372-1

"20 Martin Sabrow, Rainer Eckert, and Monika Flacke (eds.) ... 23 Jan Scheunemann, Gegenwartsbezogenheit und Parteinahme für den Sozialismus: Geschichtspolitik und regionale Museumsarbeit in der SBZ/ DDR 1945–1971 (Berlin: Metropol Verlag ..."






Munkái
(Hungarian Edition)
by Péter Apor
Paperback, 506 Pages, Published 2010 by Nabu Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-148-98554-1, ISBN: 1-148-98554-9

"This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of pr ..."






The Handbook of COURAGE
Cultural Opposition and Its Heritage in Eastern Europe
by Balázs Apor, Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth
636 Pages, Published 2018 by Institute Of History, Research Centre For The Humanities, Hungarian Academy Of Sciences
ISBN-13: 978-963-416-142-4, ISBN: 963-416-142-1

"Social-Political Organizations of the Republic of Moldova, and the Archive of the Intelligence and Security Service), is their emphasis ... and Nicolae Dragos Collections, which discuss the most important “anti-Soviet" groups emerging in the MSSR in the 1960s and early 1970s. In the latter subcategory, I would highlight the cases of Gheorghe Muruziuc,” Arsenie Platon,” and Zaharia Doncev, ” which focus ..."






Az elképzelt köztársaság
a Magyarországi Tanácsköztársaság utóélete, 1945-1989
by Péter Apor
228 Pages, Published 2014
ISBN-13: 978-963-9627-66-6, ISBN: 963-9627-66-6






Narratives Unbound
Historical studies in post-communist Eastern Europe
by Balázs Trencsényi, Péter Apor, Sorin Antohi
512 Pages, Published 2007 by Central European University Press
ISBN-13: 978-615-5211-29-4, ISBN: 615-5211-29-9

"75-99. lászló lakatos, “az elfelejtett Hajnal istván. az íráskultúra és a kapitalizmus szelleme: Hajnal istván 1933/34-es tanulmányai,” [the Forgotten istván Hajnal. culture of Writing and the spirit of capitalism: istván Hajnal's studies from 1933-34 ] ..."






Narratives Unbound
Historical Studies in Post-Communist Eastern Europe
by Sorin Antohi, Balázs Trencsényi, Péter Apor, Bal Zs Trencs‚Nyi, P‚Ter Apor, Associate Professor Balazs Trencsenyi, Baron Peter Apor
Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 2007 by Central European University Press
ISBN-13: 978-963-7326-85-1, ISBN: 963-7326-85-5

"This is the first work that covers the post-Communist development of historical studies in six Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. It offers a uniquely critical and qualitative analysis from a comparative and critical perspective, written by scholars from the region itself. Focusing on the first post-Communist decade, 1989-1999, the book offers a longer-term perspective that incl ..."






Történeti antropológia
módszertani írások és esettanulmányok
by Marcell Sebők, Miklós Hidas, Emese Lafferton, Peter Burke, Péter Apor, Replika Kör
328 Pages, Published 2000
ISBN-13: 978-963-03-9761-2, ISBN: 963-03-9761-7






The Rise of Comparative History
by Balazs Trencsenyi, Constantin Iordachi, Péter Apor
Hardcover, 390 Pages, Published 2020 by Central European University Press
ISBN-13: 978-963-386-361-9, ISBN: 963-386-361-9

"This book―the first of a three-volume overview of comparative and transnational historiography in Europe―focuses on the complex engagement of various comparative methodological approaches with different transnational and supranational frameworks. It considers scales from universal history to meso-regional (i.e. Balkans, Central Europe, etc.) perspectives. In the form of a reader, it displays 18 historical studies written between 1900 an ..."



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