Huang Lifu

(№.5,2015)

Abstract: According to the tasks in political field, the history of Hungary after 1988 is divided into three stages, i.e. upheaval, transition and post transition. Since 1988, the mechanism of Hungarian rulers to control 1956 collective memory is composed of three steps: to issue official documents to subvert the former nature of the event, to create the collective memory for new nature of the event; to remove the carriers of old memory, delete old collective memory, expand the carriers of historical memory, strengthen and solidify new collective memory; hold large commemorative activities to make the collection memory about the event evolve into the directed social emotion and serve for the ruling policy of the authority. Through the these control mechanism, the rulers of Hungary created the collective memory matched with the political objects in different development stages, imposing important influence to the promotion of political process including upheaval, transition and post transition.

Keywords: Hungary; 1956 event; collective memory; transition; politics