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Regimes of Memory in the Context of Autocratic Breakthroughs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Iván Zoltán Dénes
Iván Zoltán Dénes*
Affiliation:
Henrik Marczali Research Team, Budapest, Hungary. Email: denes.ivan.zoltan@gmail.com
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Abstract

Global climate change, migration waves, Brexit, Trump’s presidency, the politics of Putin’s Russia, the narrow-minded technocratic executive leadership of the EU, and the constitutional crisis in Spain, present old, reborn, and new challenges to the integrative and cohesive forces of the diversity and openness of Europe. The current autocratic breakthroughs in Hungary and Poland are part of these phenomena. This introductory article focuses on the common preconditions of autocratic breakthroughs, especially on the uncertainties, anxieties and fears rooted in unprocessed traumatic experiences. They have created the possibility of pitting the case of the community against the case of liberty, producing powder-kegs of political hysteria in which the political language of national egotism and regimes of memory strongly connect with each other.

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European Review , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , December 2020 , pp. 843 - 849
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© Academia Europaea 2020

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