Book presentation: Red Stars – Entertainment industry and socialist revues in the Rákosi Era

National Széchényi Library will present the book based on its highly successful exhibition entitled Red Stars – Entertainment industry and socialist revues in the Rákosi Era.

Curator-author Dániel Molnár and Ildikó Sirató, Head of NSZL’s Theater History Collection will discuss topics such as the nature, operation, or inability to operate and disdain of show business, socialist revues, actors, dancers, artistes, snoopers, cultural policy, censorship and naked women – in the 1950s.

The book presentation ceremony will start at 5 p.m. on Thursday May 9 , 2019 in Room 516 on Level 5 of the Library building.

After the discussion, the author will “sign copies of his book with one hand and hold a guided tour with the other one”.

Blurb of the book (in Hungarian)

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