Dora Thornton is curator of Renaissance collections in the Department of Medieval and Modern Europe in the British Museum and the author of The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy

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Promote, Tolerate, Ban: Art and Culture in Cold War Hungary Home & Decorative Dora Thornton is curator ofEdited by Cristina Cuevas Wolf and Isotta Poggi Essays by Katalin Cseh Varga, Cristina Cuevas Wolf, Dvid Fehr, Steven Mansbach, Gza Perneczky, Isotta Poggi, and Tibor Valuch In the fall of 1956, Hungarians led a successful rebellion against Soviet control. However, after only ten days of freedom, the uprising was brutally crushed, and the Soviet aligned minister Jnos Kdr assumed power. Focusing on the Kdr era (195689), this publication explores the