Soviet Bloc Multilateral Meetings
19471991

Soviet Bloc Leadership Database
19451991

The United States and Eastern Europe
19451992

"Volume I. Chapter 16: East Central Europe, 1953-1956"

By Csaba Békés

in: The Cambridge History of the Cold War, 3 volumes

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"Is China with us? Chinese diplomatic documents on Hungary, 1956"

By Péter Vámos

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"The 1956 Revolution:
A History in Documents"

Edited by Csaba Békés,
Malcolm Byrne, János M. Rainer

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"The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in World Politics"

By Csaba Békés


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"Hungary in the Cold War 1945-1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union"

By László Borhi

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Recent updates and additions
7/22/2010 Publications: new publications on Hungary
7/15/2010 First Annual Cold War History Research Center International Student Conference
6/22/2010 New summer interns at the Cold War History Research Center
1/7/2010
10/16/2009

Cold War Researcher Database: new institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia

9/22/2009

Publications: new publications on Yugoslavia

8/31/2009

Cold War Researcher Database: new researchers in Finland

8/31/2009

Publications: new publications on Hungary

  This page has last been updated on July 22, 2010 [older updates]

Special Collection


20 years after: Political Transition in Hungary, 1989

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"Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Roots of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964"

Balázs Szalontai

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"Sino-Hungarian Relations and the 1956 Revolution"

By Péter Vámos


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"North Korea's Efforts to Acquire Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Weapons: Evidence from Russian and Hungarian Archives"
By Balazs Szalontai and Sergey Radchenko

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"Evolution and Revolution: Hungary and International Politics in 1956"

Edited by Csaba Békés


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"The Hungarian Revolution 1956"

Elite Series No. 148.

By Erwin A. Schmidl and László Ritter

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Representation at Recent Conferences

Dropping, maintaining and breaking the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East-Central Europe twenty years later

Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of SciencesPrague, 19-21, November, 2009.

Paper presented: Csaba Békés: Cold War, Détente and the Soviet Bloc, 1953–1975.

Political Mythology and History

University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski” – Faculty of History, Faculty of Philosophy, Centre for Doctoral and Post-doctoral Research “Dialogue Europe”
with the support of WAZ Media Group
2-4 April 2009, Sofia

Paper presented; Csaba Bekes: Real and Apparent Crises of the EastWest Relationship during the Cold War.

 

Détente and CSCE in Europe. The States of the Warsaw Pact and the Federal Republic of Germany in their Mutual Perception and Rapprochement,
1966-1975.

Volkswagen Stiftung-project "Détente and CSCE in Europe" at the University of Mannheim in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Prague, October 12–15, 2008.

Csaba Bekes: Hungary, the German question and the CSCE Process, 1965–1975

China and the World in Mao’s Last Decade, 1966-1976

University of Hong Kong, January 9–10, 2009

Péter Vámos: China’s Relations with East-Central European Soviet bloc countries, 19661976

Der "Prager Frühling": Das Internationale Krisenjahr 1968
[The "Prague Spring": 1968, a year of international crisis]

Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung
Wien–Graz, August 20–22, 2008.

Csaba Békés: Hungary Between Prague and Moscow.

Modern Hungarian foreign policy – the present and its past

Institute of Habsburg Studies –Teleki László Foundation
Budapest, April 11, 2008

Csaba Békés: Magyar külpolitika a bipoláris világban, 1945–1991.
[Hungarian foreign policy in the bipolar World, 1945–1991]

Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968

Center Austria, University of New Orleans
New Orleans, April 34, 2008

Csaba Békés: Hungary and the Prague Spring.

Fateful Eights in Czech History: Historical Anniversaries of 2008 and Their Significance for Czech History Today

Czech Embassy Washington, D. C., George Washington University, National Security Archive, Washington D.C.

László Borhi: The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Failure of Peace in Europe

Döntéshozatal és külpolitikai tanácsadás
[Decision making and foreign policy advising]

Hungarian Institute for Foreign Policy
Budapest, February 21, 2008

CWHRC Director Csaba Békés participated in a roundtable on Hungarian foreign policy strategy and foreign policy thinking.

1999 to 2008

 

 

 

 



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