Csaba BÉKÉS, Ph. D.

Founding Director, Cold War History Research Center, Budapest
(www.coldwar.hu)

Senior Research Fellow, 1956 Institute, Budapest
(www.rev.hu)

 

CURRICULUM VITAE/PUBLICATIONS

Name: Csaba BÉKÉS Ph. D.

Born: February 3, 1957, Nyírbátor, Hungary
Address: H-1039 Budapest, Kinizsi u. 38.
Phone: 361-240-1253
Fax: 361-322-5228
E-mail: bek11339@helka.iif.hu

Education:

1978–1983 József Attila University, Szeged, [Majors: History and
English language and literature]
1983 M.A.
1989 University Doctor’s degree [History]
1998 Ph.D. Janus Pannonius University, Pécs [History]


Positions:

1983–1987 Archivist, New Hungarian Central Archives, Budapest
1987–1991 Research librarian, National Széchényi Library, Budapest
1989–1992 Visiting lecturer in history, József Attila University,
Szeged
1991– Senior Research Fellow and Research Coordinator (1991–2003),
Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian
Revolution, Budapest
www.rev.hu
1997– 2000 Coordinator, Hungarian Program, Project on Openness
in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
[Based at the National Security Archive, Washington D.C.]
1998 – Founding Director, Cold War History Research Centre, Budapest
www.coldwar.hu


International Cooperation:

From 1992 – I have been coordinating the Hungarian research projects of the Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.

1996–2000 member of the international advisory board of the “Project on Openness in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union”, founded by the National Security Archive in Washington D.C.

From 2000 – I have been a member of the international editorial board of the journal Cold War History published by Frank Cass in London.

From 2000 – I have been coordinating the Hungarian research projects of the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Washington–Zurich)

From 2001 - I have been a member of the international editorial board of the
Journal of Cold War Studies published at Harvard University.

2003–2005 - member of the Academic Board of Balassi Bálint Institute in Budapest

From 2003 - I have been a member of the international group of scholars working on the three volume book project: The Cambridge History of the Cold War. I have written the chapter: East Central Europe from 1953 to the Aftermath of the 1956 Revolutions.(1953–1960).
Among the 75 contributors I am the sole member from East Central Europe.
The three volumes will be published in 2009-2010.

From 2004 - I have been coordinating the Hungarian research projects of the international research project: “East Central Europe and the German Question”, 1956–1975 (Mannheim University)

From 2004 - I have been an Associate Member of the Cold War Studies Centre at the London
School of Economics.


Main interest:

Current book projects:


Fellowships:

1990 London, Visiting fellow, Institute of Slavonic and East European Studies, London University [3 months], Archival research in the Public Record Office, Kew Gardens

1992 United States, Research Fellow, Cold War International History Project, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. [3 months]
Archival research:
National Archives, Washington D.C.
National Security Archive, Washington D.C.
Eisenhower Library, Abeline, Kansas
Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
United Nations Archives, New York
War as Global Conflict, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, New York [9 months]

2006–2007 Fulbright Visiting Professor, New York University, New York [9 months]

2007 Fall István Deák Visting Professor, Columbia University


Study trips:

1991 London, Archival research in the Public Record Office, Kew
[1 month]

1995 London, Archival research in the Public Record Office, Kew
[1 month]

1997 Washington D.C., National Archives
[2 weeks]

 

International conferences organized by me:

Hungary and the World, 1956. The New Archival Evidence, (1956 Institute– Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. –National Security Archive, Washington D.C.)
Budapest, 26–29, September, 1996

European Archival Evidence on Stalin and the Cold War, (1956 Institute – Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.)
Budapest, October 3–4, 1997.

Political Transition in Hungary, 1989–1990, (Cold War History Research Center, Budapest – 1956 Institute – Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. – National Security Archive, Washington D.C.)
Budapest, 10–12 June, 1999

New Central and Eastern European Evidence on the Cold War in Asia,
(The George Washington University Cold War Group–Cold War History Research Center – 1956 Institute)
Budapest, October 31–1 November, 2003.


Participation at international conferences/seminars:

The Role of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Collapse of the Soviet Communist System,
Budapest, 13–15 June, 1991
Paper presented: President Kliment Voroshilov's Telegram to Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain on the Soviet Intervention in Hungary on 4 November 1956.

1956 in Hungary and in Poland,
Budapest, December, 1991
Paper presented: The British Government and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Hungary 1956 – Finnish–Hungarian Seminar,
Tampere, Finland, 29–30 March, 1993.
Paper presented: The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and the Western Great Powers

Internal factors facilitating Communist takeover in East-Central Europe 1944–1948
Opocno, Czech Republic, 9–11 September, 1993.
Paper presented: The Interaction of the Internal and Foreign Policy of the Hungarian
Communist Party During the Political Crisis in the Spring of 1946.

Prague 1968 and the World.
Prague, 3–5 March, 1994.
Paper presented: The International Background of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and
that of the Prague Spring in 1968. A comparative analysis.

6th of March 1945: The Groza Government and Rumania's Communisaton.
Bucharest, 3–4 March, 1995.
Paper presented: The Communist Parties and the National Issue in Central and
Eastern - Europe [1945–1947] - An Important Factor Facilitating Communist
Takeover in the Region.

Die ungarische revolution 1956. Austrian – Hungarian Conference,
Vienna, 6 April, 1995. [Collegium Hungaricum]
Paper presented: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Great Powers.

V. World Congress for Central and East European Studies,
Warsaw, 6–11. August, 1995.
Panel XIV-9: 1956: Hungary in the light of new archival sources.
Paper presented: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Great Powers.

Hungary and the World, 1956. The New Archival Evidence,
Budapest, 26–29 September, 1996.
Paper presented: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics

The Suez War of 1956 after 40 Years.
Kairo, 29 October, 1996 [Al Akhram Institute for Strategic and Political Studies]
Paper presented: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Suez Crisis.

The Paris Peace Treaty of 1947
Budapest, 27 March, 1997.
Paper presented: Initiatives of the Hungarian Communist Party prior to the Hungarian Government Delegation’s Visit to Moscow in the Spring of 1946.

The New Cold War History
Athens, Ohio, 9–11 May, 1997.
Paper presented: New Findings on the Cold War in Hungary

Poland 1980–1982. Internal Crisis, International Dimensions
Jachranka, 8–10 November, 1997.

European Archival Evidence on Stalin and the Cold War
Budapest, October 3–4, 1997.
Paper presented: Stalin and Hungary 1944–1948.

The Czechoslovak February, 1948
Prague, 20–22 February, 1998.

The End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989: "New Thinking" and New Evidence,
Musgrove, St. Simon's Island, Georgia, May 1–3, 1998.
I was moderating Panel I.: The Emergence of Soviet “New Thinking in Eastern Europe

The Years of Transition, 1947–1949
Budapest, 10–11 September, 1998.
Paper presented: The Origins of the Cold War.

The Memory of the Cold War, [1956, 1968,1989–1990]
Budapest, 9–10 October, 1998.
Paper presented: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Soviet Bloc

Eastern European Perspectives on the German Question
Essen, 23–24 November, 1998.
Paper presented: Hungary and the German Question, 1949–1956.

Political Transition in Hungary, 1989–1990
Budapest, June 10–12, 1999.
Paper presented: East–West Relations and the Hungarian Transition

The Democratic Revolution in Czechoslovakia. Its Preconditions, Course and Immediate Aftermath
Praha, October 14–16., 1999.

Poland 1986–1989. The End of the System
Warsaw–Miedzeszyn, October 21–23, 1999.
Paper presented: Political Transition in Hungary, 1988–1990

New Cold War History: Historiography, Theory,and Methodology
Moscow, 7–11 May, 2000.
Paper presented: The “New Course” in East–West Relations, 1953–1956

Annual conference, Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Zurich, December 2, 2000.
Paper presented: Hungarian archival sources on the Warsaw Pact.

Ten Year Anniversary Cold War Summit, Cold War International History Project
Washington D.C., March 2–3, 2002.
Paper presented: The Cold War History Research Center in Budapest.

Towards an International History of the War in Afghanistan.
Washington, D.C. ,Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
April 29–30, 2002.
I participated at the conference as an observer.

L’Europe en mutation. Le processus d’Helsinki: de l’Europe divisée
au perspectives de la Grande Europe
Paris, Sorbonne III. 7–8 June, 2002.
Paper presented: The Human Rights Issue in Hungary

Sawyer seminar
International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University.
New York, 27 September, 2002.
Paper presented: Eastern Europe and the Cold War

Romania and the Cold War,
Bucharest, October 3–6, 2002
I was chair of the Panel: Romania and the Warsaw Pact, 1969–1989

Annual conference, Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact,
Zurich, November 16, 2002
Paper presented: New Hungarian archival sources on the Warsaw Pact.

Between East and West: Hungarian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century
Indiana University, Bloomington, March 29, 2003.
Paper presented: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Superpowers

Annual conference, Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact,
Vienna, October 11, 2003.
Paper presented: New Hungarian archival sources on the Warsaw Pact.
New Central and Eastern European Evidence on the Cold War in Asia,
George Washington University Cold War Group–Cold War History Research Center, Budapest, 31 October – 1 November, 2003.
Paper presented: Hungarian mediation during the Vietnam War, 1965–1966.

“Hatvanas évek“ konferencia, [“The sixties”]
Budapest, October 17–18, 2003.
Paper presented: “Magyarország és az Európai biztonság, 1966–1970” [Hungary and European security, 1966–1970]

Külpolitika és nemzeti érdek. Folytonosság és diszkontinuitás a 20. századi magyar külpolitikában. [Foreign policy and national interest. Continuity and discontinuity in 20th century Hungarian foreign policy]
Teleki László Intézet, Budapest, Külpolitikai Tanulmányok Központja, [Center for Foreign Policy Studies]
December 8, 2003.
Paper presented: Magyar külpolitika a szovjet szövetségi rendszerben, 1968–1989. [Hungarian foreign policy in the Soviet alliance system, 1968–1989]

NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intra–Bloc Conflicts
Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University
April 23–24, 2004.
Paper presented: Why Was There No „Second Cold War” in Europe? Hungary and the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan in 1979.

The Helsinki Process: a historical reappraisal
University of Padova, June 7, 2004.
Paper presented: Hungary and the CSCE Process, 1965–1970

Annual conference, Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Urbino, October 1–2, 2004.
Paper presented: Hungarian archival sources on the Warsaw Pact.

Eastern Europe and Western Europe in the Cold War [1965–1975]
Münster, October 23–23, 2004 [University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Paris IV-0Sorbonne].
Paper presented: The Warsaw Pact and the Helsinki Process

The Warsaw Pact: From its Founding to its Collapse, 1955–1991,
Washington D.C., 2005. május 26–27.
El?adás: Warsaw Pact Coordination and the CSCE process, 1965–1970

The Helsinki Process and the Demise of Communism
Prague, 2005 június 5–7.
Paper presented: Hungary and the Making of the CSCE process, 1965–1970

At the roots of the European security system: thirty years since the Helsinki Final Act
Zurich, September 8-10, 2005
Paper presented: The Warsaw Pact and the Preparation for a European Security Conference, 1964–1970

Conference for the Creation of an International History of the Cold War. The Origins and Early Development of the Cold War, 1945-1962. (Workshop for the forthcoming 3 volume Cambridge History of the Cold War)
March 30 to April 2, 2006, The Truman Presidential Museum & Library, The Harry S. Truman Library Institute for National and International Affairs and the University of Missouri – Kansas City
Paper presented: East Central Europe from 1953 to the Aftermath of the 1956 Revolutions

VI. Hungarológiai kongresszus, (VIth Congress of Hungarian Studies) Debrecen, 2006. August, 22-27.
Paper presented: A helsinki folyamat hatása a magyar külpolitikai gondolkodásra.
[The impact of the Helsinki process on Hungaran foreign policy thinking]

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Historical Perspective. 50th Anniversary Reassessments. Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma. October 30, 2006.
Paper presented: Soviet Decision making During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Fifty Years` Perspective on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, September 18-20, 2006.
Keynote speech: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in World Politics

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution 50 Years Later - Canadian and International Perspectives. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, 2006. October 12-14.
Keynote speech: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in World Politics

1956 and Its Impact on the Soviet Bloc.
Columbia University, New York, November 2-3, 2006.
Paper presented: Could the Hungarian Revolution Have Succeeded in 1956?

Traveling scholars project. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Fifty Years On. (Charles Gati, Attila Szakolczai, Csaba Békés)
New School, New York, October 2, 2006.
Princeton University, Princeton, October 3, 2006.
George Washington University, Washington D.C. October 4, 2006.
City University of New York, New York, October 5, 2006.
Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, October 6, 2006.
New York University, New York, October 9, 2006.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma. October10, 2006.

Revolution, Ideology and Memory. Roundtable discussion. Participants: Ágnes Heller, Paul Berman, Csaba Békés.
Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, October 24., 2006

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and After: Impact and Contribution.
Bard College, NY. (USA) February 15-17, 2007
Opening keynote speech: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics

Transformation through Communication: Changes in the East-West Conflict in the Era of Détente (1966-1975)
Budapest, 2007 October 19-20.
Paper presented: The interdependence of Ostpolitik and West German-Hungarian economic relations 1963-1973

Dealing with the Past in East Central Europe.
Columbia University, 2007, December 2-3:
I was chair of Panel 2. (Czechoslovakia, GDR, Romania)

Döntéshozatal és külpolitikai tanácsadás. [Decision making and foreign policy advising] Hungarian Institute for Foreign Policy. Budapest, February 21, 2008.

Participation in a roundtable on Hungarian Foreign policy strategy and foreign policy thinking.

Teller Ede Emlékülés [Edward Teller seminar]
Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Budapest, 2008. január 16.
Paper presented: Szuperhatalmi politika a hidegháborúban, 1945-1962.
[Superpower politics in the Cold War, 1945-1962]

Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968.
Center Austria, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, April 3-4, 2008.
Paper presented: Hungary and the Prague Spring.

Modern magyar külpolitika - a jelen és múltja. [Modern Hungarian foreign policy – the present and its past]
Habsburg Intézet-Teleki László Alapítvány, Budapest, 2008. április 11.
Paper presented: Magyar külpolitika a bipoláris világban, 1945-1991.
[Hungarian foreign policy in the bipolar World, 1945-1991]

Der "Prager Frühling". Das Internationale Krisenjahr 1968.
Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung.
Wien-Graz, 20-22 August 2008.
Paper presented: Hungary Between Prague and Moscow.

Security Apparatus, Propagandism and the Prague Spring
Prague, 7–9 September 2008.
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR), Institute of National Remembrance,
Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Polish Institute, Faculty of Arts, Charles University.
Paper presented: Hungary and the Prague Spring

The „Prague Spring” and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968.
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, October 9-10, 2008.
Paper presented: The ‘Prague Spring”, Hungary and the Warsaw Pact Invasion.

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, 12-15 October 2008.
Paper presented: Hungary, the German question and the CSCE Process, 1965-1975

Teaching experience:

1989 – 1992: Szeged University; Visiting lecturer
The Foreign Policy of Hungary, 1945–1956

1994: Turku University, Finland, Visiting lecturer
The History of Hungary in the 20th century
[In English]

1995: Vendéglátóipari F?iskola, Budapest [College of Commerce and Catering Trade]
Visiting lecturer
The History of Hungary, 1945–1989 [In English]

1995: Budapesti Közgazdaságtudományi Egyetem, [Budapest University of Economics]
Visiting lecturer
The history of the Cold War, [1953–1963]
[Ph.D. course]

2003:
Matthias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest
Visiting lecturer
Diplomatic history in the 20th century

2006–2007 Fulbright Visiting Professor, New York University, New York [9 months]
The History of East-West relations in Europe after the Second World War
East Central Europe and the Cold War, 1945-1991

2006–2007 Visiting Professor, Empire State College, New York
The History of East-West relations in Europe after the Second World War

2007 Fall István Deák Visiting Professor, Columbia University
The History of East-West relations in Europe after the Second World War
East Central Europe and the Cold War, 1945-1991

PUBLICATIONS


I. BOOKS

A magyar kormány békepropaganda tevékenysége 1945–1946-ban - Kísérletek a külföld felvilágosítására a párizsi béketárgyalások elôtt. Bölcsészdoktori disszertáció, József Attila Tudományegyetem, Szeged, 1988, 245 old. [Hungarian Initiatives before the Paris Peace Conference in 1946] [Doctoral dissertation]

"Az 1956-os magyar forradalom helye a szovjet kommunista rendszer összeomlásában"- Az 1991. június 13-15-én Budapesten az Országos Széchényi Könyvtárban megtartott nemzetközi konferencia jegyzôkönyve, [ed.] Budapest 1993, 155 p. ["The Place of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Collapse of the Soviet Communist System" - Papers of the International Conference held in Budapest on 13-15 July 1991].

Az 1956-os magyar forradalom a világpolitikában [The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics]. 1956-os Intézet, Budapest, 1996.

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics. Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., September, 1996. Working Paper No. 16. [http://cwihp.si.edu]

The Hidden History of Hungary 1956: A Compendium of Declassified Documents. Csaba Békés, Christian F. Ostermann, Malcolm Byrne [eds.]. The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution [Budapest] - The National Security Archive [Washington D.C.] 1996.

Rendszerváltozás Magyarországon 1989–1990. Dokumentumok. [Political Transition in Hungary. Documents] F?szerk.: Békés Csaba, Malcolm Byrne, Szerk.: Kalmár Melinda, Ripp Zoltán, Vörös Miklós, National Security Archive, Hidegháború-történeti Kutatóközpont, 1956-os Intézet, 1999

Political Transition in Hungary, 1989–1990. A Compendium of Declassified Documents and Chronology of Events, Eds. Csaba Békés, Malcolm Byrne, Melinda Kalmár, Zoltán Ripp, Miklós Vörös, National Security Archive, Cold War History Research Center, 1956 Institute, 1999

Cold War, Détente and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Working paper No. 7, Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University, 2002

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution. A history in documents. Csaba Békés, Malcolm Byrne, János M. Rainer [eds.] CEU Press, Budapest–New York, 2002, 598 p.

Hungary and the Warsaw Pact, 1954–1989. Documents with an Introduction, Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, web site: www.isn.ethz.ch/php , [250 p.] 2003.

Európából Európába. Magyarország konfliktusok kereszttüzében, 1945–1990. [From Europe to Europe. Hungary in the Crossfire of Conflicts, 1945–1990] Budapest, 2004, Gondolat

A magyar pártok jöv?képe a rendszerváltástól máig [The Political Parties’ Vision of the Future in Hungary since the Political Transition] (With Melinda Kalmár), 116 p. (Manuscript, 2004)

The Records of the Warsaw Pact Deputy Foreign Ministers (eds.) Csaba Békés, Anna Locher, Christian Nuenlist, Introduction by Csaba Békés, Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, web site: www.isn.ethz.ch/php, 2005.

Az Egyesült Nemzetek Szervezete és a magyar forradalom, 1956–1963. Tanulmányok, dokumentumok és kronológia. [The United Nations and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Essays, Documents and Chronology.] Szerk. Békés Csaba és Kecskés D. Gusztáv. Magyar ENSZ Társaság, 2006.

Az 1956-os magyar forradalom a világpolitikában [The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics]. (Second enlargened edition) 1956-os Intézet, Budapest, 2006.

Evolúció és revolúció. Magyarország és a nemzetközi politika 1956-ban. [Evolution and Revolution. Hungary and International Politics in 1956] (Szerk.) Békés Csaba, Gondolat Kiadó–1956-os Intézet, 2007.

II. CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS

Vorosilov marsall ismeretlen távirata Erzsébet angol királyn?höz az 1956. november 4-i szovjet intervencióról. [President Kliment Voroshilov's Telegram to Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain on the Soviet Intervention in Hungary on 4 November 1956] In: Csaba Békés (ed.) Az 1956-os magyar forradalom helye a szovjet kommunista rendszer összeomlásában"- Az 1991. június 13-15-én Budapesten az Országos Széchényi Könyvtárban megtartott nemzetközi konferencia jegyzôkönyve, [ed.] Budapest 1993 155 p. ["The Place of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Collapse of the Soviet Communist System" - Papers of the International Conference held in Budapest on 13-15 July 1991].


The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and the Western Great Powers. In: Paula Hihnala, Olli Vehvillainen [eds.] Hungary 1956. [Based on the presentations given at the conference on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in Tampere in March 1993.] Tampere, 1995, 34-47. pp.

The Communist Parties and the National Issue in Central and Eastern Europe [1945–1947] An Important Factor Facilitating Communist Takeover in the Region. In: 6. Martie 1945: Incepturile communizarii Romaniei. Editure Enciclopedia, Bucuresti, 1995, pp. 245-253.

The International Context of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution In : The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Reform, Revolt and Repression 1953–1963 [ed.] György Litván. Longman, London-New York, 1996 [a monograph written by an authors' team of the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest].

Die Ungarische Revolution von 1956 und die westlichen Grosmachte In: Hans Henning Hahn und Heinrich Olschowsky [Hg.] Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1996, 98-107. pp.

A magyar semlegesség 1956-ban In: Semlegesség - Illúziók és realitás.[Neutrality -Illusions and Reality] Biztonságpolitikai és Honvédelmi Kutatások Központja, [Bp., 1997] 111-130. pp. [The Neutrality of Hungary in 1956]

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Great Powers. In: Terry Cox (ed.) Hungary 1956 - Forty Years On. Frank Cass London, 1997 pp. 51-66

Die ungarische Revolution von 1956 und die Grossmachte., Das Internationale Krisenjahr, 1956: Polen Ungarn Suez. Im Auftrag des Militargeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Hrsg. von Winfried Heinemann und Norber Wiggerhaus. München: Oldenbourg Verlag, 1999. 353-374. pp.

Vissza Európába. A magyarországi rendszerváltás nemzetközi háttere, 1988–1990. [Back to Europe. The International Context of the Political Transition in Hungary, 1988-1990.] In: A rendszerváltás forgatókönyve A rendszerváltás forgatókönyve. Kerekasztal tárgyalások 1989-ben [The Script if the Transition. Roundtable talks in 1989] 7. kötet, Szerk.: Bozóki András, Új Mandátum, Budapest, 2000. pp. 792-825.

Gy?zhetett volna-e a magyar forradalom 1956-ban? Mítoszok, legendák, illúziók.
[Could the Hungarian Revoution of 1956 been victorious?. Myths, legends, illusions].
In: Romsics Ignác [szerk.] Mítoszok, legendák, tévhitek a 20. századi magyar történelemr?l. [Myths, legends and misconceptions on the 20th century history of Hungary.] Osiris kiadó, Budapest, 2002, pp. 339-360

Back to Europe. The International Context of the Political Transition in Hungary, 1988–1990 In: Andras Bozóki [ed.], The Roundtable Talks of 1989: The Genesis of Hungarian Democracy. Budapest-New York: CEU Press, 2002. pp. 237-272
(http://www.rev.hu/portal/page/portal/rev/tanulmanyok/rendszervaltas/roundtable_bekes

A magyar külpolitika néhány kérdése 1945 után. [On Hungarian foreign policy after 1945] In: Püski Levente-Valuch Tibor [szerk.]: Mérlegen a XX. századi magyar történelem. Jelenkortörténeti M?hely III. Debrecen, DE Történelmi Intézet-1956-os Intézet, 2002.

Titkos válságkezelést?l a politikai koordinációig. Politikai egyeztetési mechanizmus a Varsói Szerz?désben, 1954–1967 [From secret crisis management to political coordination. Political coordinating mechanism in the Warsaw Pact, 1954-1967] In: Múlt századi hétköznapok. Tanulmányok a Kádár rendszer kialakulásának id?szakáról. [Everydays in the past century. Essays on the period of the emerging of the Kádár regime] Szerk. Rainer M. János, Budapest, 1956-os Intézet, 2003, 9-54 p.

Magyar külpolitika a szovjet szövetségi rendszerben, 1968–1989. [Hungarian foreign policy in the Soviet alliance system, 1968–1989] In Gazdag Ferenc–Kiss J. László (szerk.) Magyar külpolitika a 20. században. [Hungarian foreign policy in the 20th century] Budapest, Zrinyi Kiadó, 2004, 133–172.

Hungary and the making of the CSCE Process, 1965–1970. In: Carla Meneguzzi Rostagni (ed.) The Helsinki Process: a historical reappraisal, CEDAM, Padova, 2005, 29-44 pp.

Policies of the USA, Great Britain and France in 1956. In: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956. (ed.) Béla Király, Atlantic Research and Publications, Inc., Highland Lakes, New Jersey, 2006.

Could the Hungarian Revolution Have Succeeded in 1956? Myths, legends and illusions.
In: Putere si societate: Blocul comunist sub impactul destalinizarii, 1956 [Power and Society: The Communist Bloc under the Impact of De-stalinisation, 1956], Bucharest, 2006.

Cold War, Détente and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. In: Klaus Larres and Kenneth Osgood, (eds.) The Cold War after Stalin's Death: A Missed Opporunity for Peace? Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. 213-233.pp.

Die ungarische Revolution 1956 in der Weltpolitik. In: Ibolya Murber-Zoltán Fónagy (Hrsg.) Die Ungarische Revolution und Österreich 1956. Czernin Verlag, Wien, 2006. pp. 47-70.

Magyarország és a helsinki folyamat [Hungary and the Helsinki Process]. In: Pritz Pál (szerk.) A magyar külpolitikai gondolkodás a XX. században, [Hungarian Fooreign Policy Thinking in the 20th Century], Budapest, 2006.

The Warsaw Pact and the Helsinki Process, 1965–1970. In: Wilfried Loth / Georges-Henri Soutou (eds.) The Making of Détente: Eastern and Western Europe in the Cold War, 1965-75. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. 201-220.

Why was there no “Second Cold War” in Europe? Hungary and the East–West Crisis following the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. In: Mary Ann Heiss –S. Victor Papacosma (eds.), NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Intrabloc conflicts, The Kent State University Press, Kent, Oh., 2008, 219-232.

Ungarn zwichsen Prag und Moskau, In: Stefan Karner – Natalja Tomilina – Alexander Tschubarjan Günter Bischof – Viktor Iš?enko – Michail Prozumenš?ikov – Peter Ruggenthaler – Old?ich T?ma – Manfred Wilke (Hg.), Prager Frühling. Das internationale Kriesenjahr 1968. Beitrage. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar Wien, 2008, 481-500.

The Warsaw Pact, the German Question and the Making of the CSCE Process, 1961–1970. In: The CSCE 1975 and the Transformation of Europe. Gottfried Niedhart & Oliver Bange Eds.) Berghahn Books, New York, 2008, 113-128.

III. ARTICLES

A békét a gyôztesek kötik. A magyar kormány békepropaganda tevékenysége (1945–1946) Aetas. 1990. 1–2. sz. 29–56. o. [Hungarian Initiatives before the Paris Peace Conference in 1946]

Dokumentumok a magyar kormánydelegáció 1946. áprilisi moszkvai tárgyalásairól. Régió, 1992. 3. sz. 161-194. o. [Documents on the Hungarian Government Delegation's negotiations in Moscow in April, 1946].

Brit követi jelentések a világ különböz? országaiból az 1956-os forradalommal kapcsolatos helyi reakciókról. Holmi, 1991. 10. sz. 1312-1332. [British Diplomatic Reports from all over the World on local reactions on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution]

A brit kormány és az 1956-os magyar forradalom [The British Government and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution] In: Évkönyv, 1992, 1956-os Intézet, Budapest, 19–38. [Yearbook, 1992, Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution]

New Findings on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Bulletin, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., Fall 1992, pp.1-3. [http://cwihp.si.edu]

President Kliment Voroshilov's Telegram to Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain on the Soviet Intervention in Hungary on 4 November 1956, The Slavonic and East European Review, London, Volume 71 Number 1 January 1993 pp. 126–129.

A magyar kérdés az ENSZ-ben és a nyugati nagyhatalmak titkos tárgyalásai [1956 október 23 - november 4] - Brit diplomáciai dokumentumok. In: Évkönyv, 1993, 1956-os Intézet, Budapest, 39–71. [British Diplomatic Papers Relating to the Hungarian Issue in the United Nations and the Secret Negotiations of the Western Great Powers [23 October – 4 November 1956] Yearbook, 1993, Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution]

Demokratikus eszmék és nagyhatalmi érdekek. Egy megvalósulatlan amerikai javaslat az 1956-os magyar forradalom megsegítésére. Holmi, 1993/10. sz. - [An Unrealized American Plan to Support the Hungarian Revolution in 1956.]

Anglia és az 1956-os magyar forradalom I-III. Köztársaság, 1993. augusztus 7, augusztus 14., augusztus 21. - [Great Britain and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution I-III.]

Bibó István távirata az amerikai elnökhöz. Magyar Hírlap, 1993. október 22. - [Minister of State István Bibó's telegram to President Eisenhower on 4 November, 1956.]

Az Egyesült Államok és a magyar semlegesség 1956-ban In: Évkönyv, 1994, 1956-os Intézet, Budapest, 165-178. pp. - [The United States and the Neutrality of Hungary in 1956. Yearbook, 1993, Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution]

Mad'arská politická krize na jare 1946, Suodobé Dejiny [Praha], 1994. No. 4-5. pp. 509- 513.

Mikor lehet belôle történelem? Népszabadság, 1994. október 22. [When can 1956 become history?] [With Melinda Kalmár]

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics. The Hungarian Quarterly Vol. 36. 1995 Summer, pp.109-121.

A magyarkérdés az ENSZ-ben. Rubicon, 1996. 8-9. sz. 20-22. pp. [ The Hungarian Issue in the United Nations, 1956-1962]

Optimizmusra szükség van - de illúziók nélkül. Volt-e esély 1956-ban? - A Kádár a forradalom nélkül nem tudott volna kádárizmust csinálni. Népszabadság. 1996. október 22. [Optimism - without Illusions. Was there a Chance in 1956? Without the Revolution Kádár would not have been able to Create Kadarism] - [with Melinda Kalmár]

Mad'arská revoluce 1956. Soudobé dejiny [Praha], 1996. No. 4. pp. 455-473. [The 1956 Hungarian Revolution] - [with Pál Germuska and János M. Rainer]

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Great Powers, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol 13 June 1997, No. 2, Special issue: Hungary 1956 - Forty Years on, Frank Cass, London, pp. 51-66.

Hidegháború, enyhülés és az 1956-os magyar forradalom, Évkönyv V. 1996-1997, 1956-os Intézet, Budapest, 1997, 201-213. pp. [Cold War, Détente and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution]

Soviet plans to establish COMINFORM in early 1946. New evidence from Hungarian archives. Bulletin, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., issue 10, March, 1998, 135-136. pp. [http://cwihp.si.edu]

A Kádár-korszak külpolitikája 1956–1968, Rubicon, 1998, No. 1. 19-22. pp. [Foreign Policy in the Kádár era, 1956–1968]

Napló elvtársaimnak [Rákosi Mátyás: Visszaemlékezések, 1940-1956. 1-2. köt. Budapest: Napvilág, 1997. c. könyvének ismertetése] [Diary for my Comrades. Book review on Mátyás Rákosi’s memoirs] Élet és Irodalom. 42. évf. 1998. márc. 6. 10. sz. 14.p

Magyar–szovjet csúcstalálkozók, 1957–1965, [Hungarian–Soviet Summit Meetings. Documents] Évkönyv, 6. 1998 /szerk. Litván György. Budapest: 1956-os Intézet, 1998. 143-183.pp.

A hidegháború kezdete, [The Origins of the Cold War] Évkönyv, 7. 1998/ szerk. Rainer M. János, Standeisky Éva, Budapest, 1956-os Intézet, 1999. 217-226.pp

The Hungarian Question on the UN Agenda. British Foreign Office Documents from
1956. The Hungarian Quarterly, Spring 2000, pp.103-122.

Retour en Europe", Guerre mondiale et conflits contemporains [Paris] [La Hongrie dans les conflits du XXe siecle], octobre 2001, pp. 115-137.

Gy?zhetett volna-e a magyar forradalom 1956-ban? Mítoszok, legendák, illúziók.
[Could the Hungarian Revoution of 1956 been victorious?. Myths, legends, illusions].
Rubicon, 2001 december.

Political Transition in Hungary in 1989. Selected Documents. Bulletin, Cold War International
History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.,
Issue 12-13, 2002 Winter. pp. 73-87 [with Melinda Kalmár] [http://cwihp.si.edu]

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Superpowers, Hungarian Studies, Vol. 17. No. 1, 2003, 65–77. pp.

Miért nem lett második hidegháború Európában? A magyar pártvezetés és az 1979. évi afganisztáni szovjet intervenció. Dokumentumok. [Why was there no “Second Cold War” in Europe?] In: Évkönyv 2003. Magyarország a jelenkorban,1956-os Intézet. Szerk. Rainer M. János, Standeisky Éva, Budapest, 1956-os Intézet, 2003, 223-256

Why was there no “Second Cold War” in Europe? Documents from Hungarian Archives on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Bulletin, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., Issue 14-15, Winter 2003–Spring 2004, 204–219.
[http://cwihp.si.edu]

Magyarország és az európai biztonsági konferencia el?készítése, 1965–1970. [Hungary and the preparation of the CSCE process, 1965–1969] In Évkönyv 2004. 1956-os Intézet. Szerk. Rainer M. János, Standeisky Éva, Budapest, 1956-os Intézet, 2004, 291–309.

Hungarian foreign policy in the Soviet alliance system, 1968–1989. Foreign Policy
Review [Budapest],Vol. 3, No. 1 (2004), 87–127.

Das sowjetische Moment. Schweitzer Monatshefte, No. 2. 2006. 22-24. pp. (Ungarn 1956/2006)

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Declaration of Neutrality. Cold War History, Vol. 6. No. 4. November, 2006. pp. 477–500.

Szuperhatalmi politika a hidegháborúban, 1945-1962. [Superpower politics in the Cold War] Magyar Tudomány, 2008. 1. sz. 292-300.

Kádár János és a prágai tavasz. [János Kádár and the Prague Spring], Beszél?, 2008, 7-8. 97-115.

Charles Gati: Failed illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian revolt. Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006. és Victor Sebestyén Twelve days: revolution 1956: how the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006. c. könyvér?l. Austrian History Yearbook (USA) 2008. Book review.

IV. WORKS ACCEPTED

Kádár János és az 1968-as csehszlovákiai válság. [János Kádár and the Czechoslovak Crisis in 1968] In: Évkönyv 2008. [Yearbook, 2008] 1956 Institute. (forthcoming: December,
2008)

East Central Europe in the Cold War, 1953–1960. In: Melvyn Leffler–Odd Arne Westad (Eds.) The Cambridge History of the Cold War. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming: 2009)

Magyar külpolitika a bipoláris világban, 1945–1991 [Hungarian Foreign Policy int he Bipolar World, 1945–1991] In: András Ger? (ed.) Modern magyar külpolitika –- a jelen és múltja. [Modern Hungarian foreign policy – the present and its past] Institute for Habsburg Studies, Budapest, (forthcoming: 2009)

Hungary, the German question and the CSCE Process, 1965–1975. In: Oliver Bange–Gottfried Niedhart (Eds.) 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. (forthcoming: 2009)

Hungary Between Prague and Moscow. In: Guenter Bischof (ed.) The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968. Center Austria, University of New Orleans, (forthcoming: 2009)

Cold War, Détente and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Center for Hungarian Studies and Publications, Inc. (Social Science Monographs), Boulder, Colorado, Wayne, New Jersey, (forthcoming: 2010).