This historical ethnography of houses of culture (HoC) in two Hungarian towns interrogates
the changing relationship between state and culture in contemporary Hungary. I inquired …

Abstract Although the Cold War period is not so far behind in time from the contemporary, its
legacy still has an impact on the internal structure of today's post-socialist societies …

The paper aims to look at those community-organizing phenomena that provided
alternatives to officially supported, mandatory youth activities and played a vital role in the …

Hundreds of culture houses were built after World War II in Czechoslovakia. Rooted in the
19th-century modernist belief in the power of culture to educate and to “enlighten” peoples …

Even though vernacular culture of Hungary through its authentic rural settlements, their
inhabitants and lifestyle, were dramatically transformed during the Cold War period, their …

The last decade was witness to the successive electoral breakthroughs of national
conservative parties and the consolidation of Viktor Orbán's authoritarian democracy in …

Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the
rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna …

As a result of the political regime change in Hungary in 1989 and the economic and social
changes that took place in parallel, the number of civil society organisations and voluntary …

This study analyzes the process by which Hungarian national culture has been constructed
and changed in the last century, by focusing on one set of national symbols: the'folk cultural …

As part of culture-building efforts on the part of the Soviet regime, Culture Houses were
established, beginning in the 1920s, in most towns in every country where Soviet influence …