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Recent Updates and Additions

27/11/2025

We are proud to announce that a book forum has been published on CWHRC Director Csaba BÉKÉS’s monograph: Hungary’s Cold War in the Journal of Cold War Studies.

BOOK FORUM HUNGARY, THE USSR, AND THE COLD WAR

- Commentaries by Balázs Szalontai, Aleksandr Stykalin, Miklós Mitrovits, and Robert C. Austin

- Reply by Csaba Békés

Csaba Békés, Hungary’s Cold War: International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet Union. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 400 pp. $39.95.

Editor's Note (Mark Kramer)

"Over the past 35 years, Csaba Békés has been one of Hungary’s most innovative and prominent scholars of 20th-century European history. In his latest book, Hungary’s Cold War, he brings together various strands of his previous scholarship, providing a full survey of Hungary’s role in the Cold War. (…) The issue then turns to a book forum dealing with Csaba Békés's landmark book, Hungary's Cold War. (…) Békés's new book builds on more than 30 years of his own research as well as the work of others to produce a wide-ranging, illuminating survey of Hungary's role in the international system during the Cold War."

28/02/2025
10/12/2024

We are glad to announce that the Cold War History Research Center in Budapest has been awarded the 2024 Gold Standard Internship Host badge by the University of Oxford!

This prestigious recognition highlights our commitment to providing a top-tier internship experience for Oxford students through their Summer Internship Programme.

The Gold Standard reflects:

- Exceptional feedback from our interns

- Consistent, high-quality internship provision

- A responsive and supportive collaboration with students and Oxford’s Internship Office

We are proud to contribute to shaping the next generation of Cold War historians and social science researchers. Thank you, Oxford Careers Service for this honour, and we look forward to another year of collaboration in 2025!

 


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