Soudobé dějiny na stránkách dnešních maďarských časopisů
Contemporary History in Hungarian Journals

Summary/Abstract: The author provides a brief report on institutions in Hungary that are currently conducting research on contemporary history, describes Hungarian periodicals devoted to this subject, and names specifi c topics and contributions of interest to the Czech reader, dividing them into three groups. Among the journals that existed before the régime changed in Hungary in 1990 and continue to come out in more or less unchanged form today, Irmanová considers Századok (Centuries), Hadtörténelmi Közlemenyek (Military History Review), and the monthly História, Történelmi Szemle (History Review), and Valóság (Reality). An exceptional position among the “successor” journals is occupied by the culture and politics monthly Beszélő (Commentator). Started up in 1981 as a samizdat tribune for the views of critical intellectuals, it evolved into the centre of the political opposition, and has since 1990 been an infl uential forum for liberal views. In addition to proving a thorough description of this particular periodical, Irmanová presents Múltunk (Our Past), another of the “successor” journals. The most numerous are the journals concerned with contemporary history, which were started up in Hungary after 1989, and belong in the third group. Here she places Rubicon, Eszmélet (Consciousness), Évkönyv (Yearbook), Külügyi Szemle (Foreign Policy Review), Klió, Debreceni Szemle (Debrecen Review), Egyenlítő (Equality), Korall, Politikatudományi Szemle (Science, Scholarship, and Politics Review), Info-Társadalaom-Tudományi (Information, Society, Science and Scholarship), Kisebbségi Kutatás (Minorities Research), Regio, and Pro Minoritate. The author states that the great diversity of these periodicals, both in terms of general outlook and political orientation, accentuated by the topics and kinds of writing they contain, as well as their great number, testifi es to the highly developed treatment of contemporary history in Hungary.

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