The Past is not Past: Confronting the Twentieth Century in the Hungarian-Austrian Borderlands (Cultural Memories)

How Do We Remember The Past? What Do We Choose To Remember? And, Just As Important, What Has Been Forgotten And Erased From Public Memory, And Where Do We Find The Erased And Forgotten Reminders Of The Wrenching Events That Defined The Twentieth Century? This Book Examines How Hungarians And Austrians Living Along Their Common Border Remember, Distort, Forget, And Ignore Episodes Marking Recent Times, Among Them World War I, The Collapse Of The Habsburg Empire, Postwar Instability, The Treaty Of Trianon, World War Ii And The Holocaust, Removal Of Ethnic Germans, The Iron Curtain And 1956 Revolution, The End Of Soviet Rule, And The Post-1989 Migration Crisis. The Book Examines The Shaping Of Memory, Both Public And Private, Of This Tumultuous Century Of Upheaval, Including War, Revolution, Systematic Theft, And Murder, Along With Changes In Political Regimes, National Borders, And Demographics. The Author Draws On Fifteen Years Of Travel In The Borderlands From His Home In Gyo?r, The Largest City In The Region, Along With Published Sources And Conversations With Residents. Part Social History And Part Memoir, This Highly Illustrated Book Contains Sixteen Maps And More Than Sixty Illustrations To Help Readers Find The Answers-- Provided By Publisher.