Backyard Revolution by Pter Apor - 9781501779886

Name: Backyard Revolution by Pter Apor - 9781501779886
Brand: Cornell University Press

Cornell University Press

Backyard RevolutionMass Violence, Antisemitism, and the Populist State in PostWorld War II Hungary\nAuthor(s): Pter Apor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501779886, 978-1501779886\nSynopsis\nBackyard Revolution contributes in-depth sociocultural histories of the popular antisemitic pogroms that shook Hungary in the spring and summer of 1946. Expanding the scope of investigation of serial mass violence toward Jewish communities beyond the cases in Poland suggests that antisemitic violence was general in postwar Central and Eastern Europe and that it spoke to central components of popular notions of society and politics. \n\n Pter Apor gives new impetus to rethink the explanations of collective violence, including antisemitic ones. He considers collective violence as a particular form of political participation and examines post-Holocaust antisemitic violence as one of its perverse ways. Drawing on pr.