György Lukács and the Austrian Left: A Short Report from the Lukács Archive in Budapest

In the Austrian context, as also the European context, the task of remembering has become a self-evident cultural activity. What however remains in the shadow of collective memory is the historical project that began with
the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and ended with the disastrous breakdown of ‘real socialism’ in 1989. For analysing the setbacks and defeats, but also the crimes of real socialism, the Lukács Archive in Budapest isa
treasure-trove.