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	HU OSA 300-40-1
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 40:	Hungarian Unit
Series 1:	Subject Files

Date(s) 1949-1995

Extent and medium 1606 Archival boxes, 201 linear meters

Scope and content

In this series the materials include press clippings, news agency releases, RFE/RL research papers and background analyses, transcripts of radio broadcasts, samizdat and émigré publications, and information items.

The documents offer a broad insight into the postwar history of Hungary. They focus on issues of topical interest: domestic and foreign politics, security, opposition to the regime and exile, economy and trade, culture, environment. The most extensive files are on the communist party and other political parties, foreign relations, religion, and environmental protection - with special attention to the Bős-Nagymaros (Gabcikovo) dam constructions.

There is an extremely rich coverage of the 1956 Revolution as well: one can find the transcripts of RFE programs during theevents, as well as documents on the debates of the Petőfi-Circle, political trials, victims and martyrs of 1956, commemorations, and Hungarian and Western reactions to the Revolution.

System of arrangement

• Arranged alphabetically by subject and thereunder chronologically

Language/scripts of material

English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish (Principally Hungarian)

Finding aids

• 1606 containers
• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available.

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-40-2 Subject Files in English, 1951-1995
• HU OSA 300-40-3 Subject Card Files, 1954-1992

Date(s) of descriptions

Arranged by Miklos Banyasz; described by Andras Mink and Csaba Szilagyi on January 26, 1999; revised by Csaba Szilagyi on April 11, 2002.
Online version updated 19 April 2012