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Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures and Societies
Professor György Péteri, leader of the Program on East European Cultures & Societies of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, has made accessible in our digital archive all of the issues of the Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures and Societies published between 1999 and 2019. See more...
Women in Budapest: 1956
The historians of the 1956 Institute participated in the selection of the materials of the exhibition Women in Budapest which was organized by the City of Budapest.
You can visit the exihition in Városháza park between 23 October and 16 November.
23 October 1956 in the recollection of Imre Mécs
Excerpt from Imre Mécs's life-interview made by Béla Nóvé in 2010-11 for the Oral History Archívum of the 1956 Institute (only in Hungarian).
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He was research fellow in the 1956 Institute between 1991 and 2019. His main field of interest is the history of the 1956 revolution. He dedicated to it twenty monographs and approximately 250 articles.
He is head of department of the Department of Comparative Historical and Sociological Studies of Loránd Eötvös University. He was research fellow in the 1956 Institute between 1999 and 2019.
He worked for the 1956 Institute since the very beginning of his career. He is research fellow of the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest and editor of the websites holokausztfoto.hu.
Professor of contemporary history at Eszterházy Károly University. Formerly head of the 1956 Institute between 1999 and 2019. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the 1956 Institute Foundation.
She was research fellow in the 1956 Institute between 1998 and 2019. She was the head of the Oral History Archive since 2009. She is on the Board of Trustees of the 1956 Institute Foundation.
He was scholarly fellow in the 1956 Institute – Oral History Archive Department of the Széchényi National Library. He teaches history and he is senior research fellow at Wesley Research Institute.
He was research fellow in the 1956 Institute – Oral History Archive Department of the Széchényi National Library between 2014 and 2019. Now he works for the Committee of National Remembrance.
She worked for the 1956 Institute where she was the editor of several content developments and oral history interviews. Recently she is librarian of the local cultural center in Szigetmonostor.
Doctor of Science. He was research fellow of the 1956 Institute since 2000. His main fields of interest are the political and military history of the 20th century, the antisemitism, and the secret services.