CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Szarvas, Marton |
|---|---|
| Title | Orfeos Maoist Utopia The Emergence of the Cultural Critique of Existing Socialism |
| Summary | The thesis studies the way Orfeo, an artist group operated in Hungary between 1969 and 1972, formed and disbanded. The group criticized the existing socialism, and the lack of implementation of its ideologies, from a Maoist standpoint. The context of the research is the reform of the institutional system of state socialism, called the New Economic Mechanism. The goal of the paper is to analyze the relation between social position of cultural producers, and their ideologies, therefore I use archival data and life histories to study the process, how the cultural-economic changes of liberalization period of the country provided opportunity for the emergence of a leftist opposition. I will argue against the depiction of the intellectual social space as dichotomous, divided to an oppositional and official group, and analyze it as a continuum, structured by series of contestation and the reactions of state power to them. |
| Supervisor | Jean-Louis Fabiani, Violetta Zentai |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/szarvas_marton.pdf |
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