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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 ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

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 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 ..."