Position: Senior Research Fellow

Department: Interwar History

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Room: B.5.23.

Phone: +36 1 224-6700/4619

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QUALIFICATIONS

CSc in History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1998

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

19-20^th century, cultural history, history of propaganda, Hungary, Soviet Republic of Hungary

PROJECTS

Metropolis in Transition: Wien-Budapest 1916-1921 (Österreichische Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft, 2014-2016, tutor)
The aim of the project was a comparative analysis of Vienna and Budapest during the years between 1916 and 1921. Based on the ”spatial turn” in the historical and social sciences, Metropolis in Transition discussed specific, selected ”spatial stories” of both cities.

„A múltat végképp eltörölni”? Történelmi személyiségek ábrázolása a magyarországi munkásmozgalmi szervezetek propagandatevékenységében a századfordulótól a Tanácsköztársaságig [”No more traditions chains shall bind us”? The Representation of Historic Personalities in the Propaganda of the Organizations of the Hungarian Working-Class Movement from the Turn of the Century to the Soviet Republic] (Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alapprogramok [Hungarian Scientific Research Fund], 1999-2001, researcher)
The research dealt with the representations of different historic personalities (e.g. Ferdinand Lassalle, Karl Marx) and the appropriations of these figures for several purposes of the propaganda. The achievements of this research contains this book: Boldizsár Vörös: „A múltat végképp eltörölni”? Történelmi személyiségek a magyarországi szociáldemokrata és kommunista propagandában 1890-1919 [”No more traditions chains shall bind us”? Historic Personalities in the Social Democratic and Communist Propaganda in Hungary 1890-1919]. Budapest: MTA Történettudományi Intézete, 2004.    

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu

List of selected publications:

• ”Utopias in the Hungarian Republic of Councils.” Hungarian Studies Review vol. 46-47 (2019-2020): 55-58.
• ”Historical Figures under the New Regimes: ’Monumental Propaganda’ in Soviet Russia and in the Soviet Republic of Hungary in 1917-19.” Historia Provinciae no. 4 (2018): 219-239. Accessed January 23, 2023. doi: 10.23859/2587-8344-2018-2-4-3. https://doi.org/10.23859/2587-8344-2018-2-4-3     
• ”Kun, Béla.” In 1914-1918-Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War, edited by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, 2014-10-08. Accessed January 23, 2023. doi: 10.15463/ie1418-10064. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/kun-bela
• ”The Hungarian revolutions and counterrevolution of 1919 in jokes and caricatures.” In Hungarian  Humour, edited by Anna T. Litovkina, Judith Sollosy, Péter Medgyes, Dorota Brzozowska, 207-217. Kraków: Tertium, 2012.