Hungary after 1989: Inscribing a new past on place

Geographical Review

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 301-334

  Foote, Kenneth E ^a   Tóth, Attila ^b   Árvay, Anett ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Off the Csongrad Co Gen Assembly   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Communism; Contested places; Hungary; Memorials; Monuments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040782745     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2000.tb00340.x     Document Type: Article

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