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Title: | In memoriam: Gáspár Miklós Tamás |
Authors: | Dale, G |
Keywords: | Gáspár Miklós Tamás |
Issue Date: | 15-Mar-2023 |
Publisher: | Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) |
Citation: | Dale, G. (2023) 'In memoriam: Gáspár Miklós Tamás', Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2023, 31 (1), pp. 1 - 13. doi: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2188385. |
Abstract: | Gáspár Miklós Tamás (aka TGM, or Gazsi to friends) is being remembered in his many facets: essayist, liberal dissident, Tory anarchist and even in one case as “intellectual rock star.” But I knew him as a communist revolutionary. Almost in the image of protagonists of the Victor Serge novels he had read when young: blazing at the inept and corrupt ruling classes, agitating at rallies, surrounded by papers and books, insatiably curious, and – unlike most rock stars, even of the intellectual sort – blacklisted by employers, hounded by the security services, and struggling to make ends meet. I say “almost” because he grew into this role late in life and because in his world, whether Gheorghiu-Dej’s Romania or Orbán’s Hungary, bands of comrades operating within mass workers’ movements were absent. His arrival at revolutionary Marxism was individual and circuitous. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/26949 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2023.2188385 |
ISSN: | 2573-9638 |
Other Identifiers: | ORCID iD: Gareth Dale https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4991-6063 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Embargoed Research Papers |
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