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2018. AUTUMN-WINTER COMMUNIST STATE SECURITY Ildikó Cserényi-Zsitnyányi: Rákosi’s decision: 15 years each – Firedamp explosion in Tatabánya The 30 December 1950 […]
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2018. SPRING-SUMMER COMMUNIST STATE SECURITY János Taller: Danger: Yes, Panic: No The author presents the unknown details of the biggest […]
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2017. AUTUMN-WINTER COMMUNIST STATE SECURITY Martin Dimitrov: Oligarchs from Spies M.K.D. Professor of Tulane University (USA), expert of the end […]
Face and mask
2017. Summary Ágnes Hankiss Secret lovers This study is part of a volume in progress which will discuss the methods […]
Hungary 1956 – 1959 The memories of an Indian diplomat
“No foreigner was informed about the fact that Imre Nagy had returned from exile, not to mention that he had […]
“As a faithful son to his country and nation…”
“As a faithful son to his country and nation…” Your Excellency, Minister of the Interior, I am but an old […]
From arrow-cross to communist snitch
From arrow-cross to communist snitch “Wayfarer”, author Lajos Kutasi Kovács wrote of himself, plucking romantic strings, even though he had […]
Greys and wolves in the shadow of red
Greys and wolves in the shadow of red The trucks seemingly conducted legal trading but, in reality, they are suspected […]
The Stubborn at Heart
My forays into Jewish intellectual history began with Buber’s Hasidic tales and continued with Graetz’s six-volume Jewish history. The magic […]
History and culture
Lajos Prohászka was a representative thinker of the interbellum years in Hungary. As a Christian-based philosopher, free of all forms […]
Garden of magic
Studies, essays, lectures “It has been said: my memories of the years 1914-1924 are dreadfully alive, vivid, realistic, contoured, present. […]
National identity and historiography
“„The chapters of this book intend to review the historiographical evaluation of an era, namely the Turkish regime in Hungary; […]
Seismograph on Freedom square
“…Nothing is more important (and it’s probably not too late) for mankind today than their leaders and the followers learning […]
Selected letters of Miklós Szentkuthy
Half a century’s vivid and rich correspondence by Miklós Szentkuthy is compiled in this volume along several genuine documents and […]
Spies without cloaks. the KGB’s successors
American writer and historian Amy Knight (PhD) is an internationally recognized expert of 20th century Russian history and politics and […]
Testimony of the archives
In 1982, historian Karel Bartosek was forced to leave his native Czechoslovakia. He went to Paris and received citizenship. For […]
The physiognomy of a life’s work
volume I to III, Hamvas Béla The figure and works of Béla Hamvas uniquely combined the European cultural tradition and […]
In memoriam Béla Hamvas:
Reminiscences In this representative volume, Béla Hamvas is remembered by contemporaries, students, and friends. It is a collection of personal […]
Cathedra in flames:
Reminiscences of Miklós Szentkuthy Miklós Szentkuthy, a distinguished figure in 20th century Hungarian prose, was an exceptional lecturer adored by […]
Principles of Ethics
Nowadays, we talk more and more about values – not in a materialistic but in a spiritual sense. Any time […]
The “Naphta syndrome”: writer / ideology / power
As in his novel, The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann says through his scholarly character Herr Naphta (whom he invented to […]
Youth for Freedom Youth Organization, 1956
The story of the book Youth for Freedom Youth Organization, 1956 is linked to the town of Nagyvárad (now Oradea […]
The situation of Transylvanian Hungarians between 1916 and 1919
The study gives a fascinating insight into the history of Transylvania in a changing world through church chronicles (“historia domus”) […]
Diary and novel in the works of Miklós Szentkuthy
The vast oeuvre and special writing technique of Miklós Szentkuthy easily captivates the unsuspecting reader. In the endless stream of […]
The impact of anti-communism on U.S. conservatism
The study shows how anti-communism became one of the main amalgamating forces of the American neo-conservative movement. After the Second […]
Imre Antal, the Csango painter
The art of Imre Antal shows loving the homeland and celebrating its values in a way that the modern man […]
Kádár’s system of retaliation
The volume presents the inhumanity of “socialism with a human face”, the retaliation following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Sources […]
The conspiracy of the Red Baron
The book that the esteemed reader is holding deals with two events of paramount importance within the nearly two decades […]
Cluj-Napoca trials in 1956
Anna P. Sebők was the first to process the history of the Cluj-Napoca trials. Under the pretext of the Hungarian […]
Eternal proximity, thousands of memories:
Inscriptions of Miklós Szentkuthy This representative volume offers the reader a collection of inscriptions by Miklós Szentkuthy. In honor and […]
Worthy survival
The book collects studies, essays, and letters written by Géza Páskándi between 1978 and 1995. In them, the famous Transylvanian […]
Interrogated by life:
Conversations with Miklós Szentkuthy „I pronounce the word love which sounds like some sentimental summer nonsense. For me, however, it […]
The greatest scandal is death
In memoriam Gyula Hernádi “I am interested in the basic problems of the human condition: happiness, freedom, death, aggression, and […]
STASI: The unexplored history of the East German secret service
John O. Koehler worked as Deputy of Communications under President Ronald Reagan. For twenty-eight years he was Berlin and Bonn […]
The haunting past
The aftermath of communism in Central and Eastern Europe “Do we know what kind of political decisions were made concerning […]
Documents from the estate of archbishop József Grősz, 1956 – 1957
The volume is recommended for those intending to learn about the past not strictly through state security reports but also […]
Bomb attacks in the shadow of Moscow I-II
How has terrorism grown into such a global threat that it is capable of terrorizing the peaceful citizens of Madrid, […]
The network of state security agents in 1989
My work will not and cannot provide a full account of the topic, much less intend to state some all-encompassing […]
The Haunting Past
The aftermath of communism in Central and Eastern Europe “Do we know what kind of political decisions were made concerning […]
“Whisperers”
The intellectuals of Cegléd under surveillance “I report that in a conspiratorial activity I received the prayer book of Mari […]
Compromising Anna Kéthly
The toolkit of the communist state security “In order to compromise Anna Kéthly the attached fliers (100 pieces) have been […]
Terrorists in Budapest
The communist state security and Europe “We communists have condemned, do condemn, and will condemn terror and terrorism as the […]
Defamation and disruption
The toolkit of the communist state security I. “’Sipos’, in my opinion, did compromise Szalai in the correct manner, he […]
Humanistic intellectuals and the regime change
“Together, Rhinesmith and Palmer convinced Soros to get into the ‘business’. The chaos around organizing the manager training is absolute; […]
One-third and III/I.
“The official American definition of the material delivered by the intelligence is ‘reviewed information’. ‘Reviewed’ refers both to the authenticity […]
The controlled space – Secret surveillance
“Based on the notions put forward by the Ministry of the Interior and the State Security Service regarding the new […]
State security games
1988 – 1989 “… this question closely relates to the top secret officer staff who will most probably play an […]
Surviving networks – in light of the regime change
“We need to maintain an operative position wherever a person of hostile activities works and to establish contact with journalists […]
Fighting the arch-enemy
“Most of the time, CIA intelligence officers meet our citizens and choose their targets at diplomatic receptions and other such […]
Hungarian civil intelligence and the NATO
“A great example of the poor intelligence review and agent handling capabilities of the Hungarian intelligence organizations is the recruitment […]
Historians in the crosshairs of state security
“(…) After some general surveillance, we decided to make an actual entry into the Institute. Through Comrade Hanák, we created […]
The Institute’s name choice
Our decision to wear the name of Béla Hamvas stemmed from the author’s invaluable and highly versatile body of work […]
Fields of research of the Hamvas Institute
Culture and power One of those is “Culture and power”, which seeks to answer how the mechanisms of pressure, influencing, […]