Associate: Cold War History Research Center, Budapest
The Center was founded in 1998 as an independent successor of the International Division of the Institute for the History of the 1956 Revolution, which had long been part of the international network of Cold War studies and, in 1996, organized the acclaimed conference, "Hungary and the World, 1956."
Seeking to integrate the study of Hungarian foreign policy with research on the global history of the Cold War, the Center conducts a systematic exploration of Hungarian archives, participates in international research by bringing together scholars working on specific projects, and raises funds to facilitate their financing. It is compiling a comparative chronology of the Soviet bloc's international relations and, in collaboration with the Central European University, has initiated the creation of an English-language Internet database of abstracts of studies in contemporary history published in East Central Europe and Russia.
Csaba Békés, Director |
