Revising History in Communist Europe

<p><span data-sheets-value={"1":2"2":"Both Hungary's 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy and shaped the actions of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the present."} data-sheets-userformat={"2":769"3":{"1":0}"11":3"12":0}>Both Hungary's 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy and shaped the actions of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the present.</span></p>