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Anthropology of Political, Social and Cultural Memory: Practices in Central and Eastern Europe: Program & Abstracts : International Scientific Confer…
2020
Redescribing the Nation : Anti-Semitism as a tool of nation-building in the Hungarian Numerus Clausus debates, 1920-1928
2018
Abstract Boosting national spirit through projection of otherness is not a new phenomenon, at least in authoritarian regimes. Yet the role of anti-Semitism in the Numerus Clausus debates in the Hungarian parliament in 1920 and 1928 is worth deeper analysis, as it bore a peculiar role in the Hungarian interwar counterrevolutionary nation-building. The Numerus Clausus law of 1920 set ethnic quotas to university enrolment; the explicit argument for this was countering the Jewish ‘over-representation’ in Hungarian society. However, in 1928 the law was amended, abolishing (in principle) the said quotas; this time the arguments favoured national consolidation, where segregation was to be moderate…
Intoa ja idealismia varhaisessa Neuvostoliitossa
2018
Vesa-Matti Lahden Siperia kutsuu! ja Julia L. Mickenbergin American Girls in Red Russia ovat taiten laadittuja tietokirjoja, jotka perustuvat osittain samoihin alkuperäislähteisiin. Lahden teos valottaa teollisen siirtokunnan elämää Siperiassa, Kemorovon kaivoskaupungissa 1920-luvulla, ja Mickenbergin kirja käsittelee amerikkalaisia naisia varhaisessa Neuvostoliitossa, osittain samaisessa Kemerovon siirtokunnassa. Myös amerikkalaisen toimittajan ja kirjailijan Ruth Kennellin hahmo yhdistää teoksia. Molemmat kirjat ovat kiinnostavia kurkistusaukkoja Neuvostoliiton ulkomaalaisten rakentajien arkeen. nonPeerReviewed
The use and abuse of parliamentary concepts in Hungarian parliamentary debates, 1920–27
2020
During and after the First World War, discourses calling for constitutional reform pervaded Europe. The break-up of the continental empires, the emergence of the new nation-states, and the western calls for democratization collectively gave rise to transnational debates about parliamentarization and parliamentary government. However, in the diverse and contingent post-war political environment, at the same time these ideals were given profoundly nation-specific meanings. They were implemented in the process of nation-building in equally diverse national contexts. This article analyses the use and abuse of the parliamentary concepts and their vernacular redescriptions in Hungarian parliament…