Editorial Note
Editorial Note

Summary/Abstract: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” William Faulkner’s words (from his 1951 novel, Requiem for a Nun) have been quoted and misquoted endlessly, most recently by Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign, to describe the persistence of racial antagonisms in American life and, in particular, in Faulkner’s home region, th e American Deep South. Yet as several articles in this issue suggest, the same words apply at least as powerfully to modern Hungary – though to political and national antagonisms rather than to racial ones. Ever since Béla Kun’s Communist dictatorship and Horthy’s “white terror” that succeeded it, Hungarian society has been distorted by persistent divisions that have given rise to left–right cycles of repression and revenge.

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