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This paper examines the limitations of traditional historiography and proposes a novel approach incorporating the existential concept of responsibility into historical understanding and writing. It argues that conventional historicization methods are inadequate, especially when addressing catastrophic events like genocide that transcend mere factuality. These events challenge historians to move beyond passive documentation and engage in responsible historicization. The proposed approach emphasizes the historian's ...

At the beginning of the 1990s, Ralf Dahrendorf outlined that political or constitutional changes can be made in 6 months, economic reforms over 6 years, and solid democratic foundations, in the form of an active civil society in 60 years. The political culture of consensus or its absence critically influence the way that transformations are made, the formation of political structures. Why did illiberal political systems emerge in Central Europe, especially in Hungary? The paper will mainly try to analyse the socia...