Miklós Mitrovits

Miklós Mitrovits (born April 2, 1978 in Pécs , Hungary ) is a Hungarian historian , polonist , academic researcher, main staff member of the Institute for Political History in Budapest and member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .

Life

In 2004 he obtained his diploma in history at the Faculty of Humanities at Loránd Eötvös University (ELTE) and also completed specialization courses in historical Russian and modern Sovietology. In 2009 he submitted his dissertation in the doctoral program of Eastern European history of the 19th and 20th centuries in the doctoral school for historical sciences of the ELTE. He earned his doctorate with the rating “very good” (summa cum laude). In his dissertation he analyzed the relationship between the Polish solidarity movement and Soviet policy. The doctoral thesis was also published as a book with the title A remény hónapjai… A lengyel Szolidaritás és a szovjet politika, 1980–1981 (German: The Months of Hope… The Politics of Polish Solidarity and Soviet Policy, 1980–1981).

Between 2004 and 2009 he studied Polish literature and linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities of the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, and in 2006 he also studied at the University of Warsaw .

research

Since 2003 he has been researching regularly in various archives in Hungary , Poland , Russia and the Czech Republic . His main research area is the contemporary history of Poland, the Polish-Hungarian relations and the Central and Eastern European development features.

He does comparative research on the political, economic and cultural development of the Eastern European countries. He is mainly interested in the history of integration after the Second World War , the relations between the countries, interactions, attempts to integrate Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. He wrote several publications on the foreign policy of the Kádár era and the Hungarian-Czech and Hungarian-Polish relations.

He is editor of several studies, writings and articles in the most famous Hungarian magazines ( Múltunk - German: Our Past, Eszmélet - German: Consciousness) and in the weeklies ( Élet és Irodalom - German: Life and Literature and Egyenlítő ).

He has been a scholarship holder since 2006 and has been a research officer at the Institute of Political History in Budapest since 2012. In 2012 he was awarded membership of the Hungarian Fund for Scientific Research and was awarded the Janos Bolyai Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He takes an active part in the research project entitled De-Stalinization and Reforms in Hungary and Eastern Europe (1953–1968) at the Institute of Political History.

Other activities

As a historian, he is a member of the Terra Recognita Foundation , the Central European civic foreign policy initiative. He participated in the editing of the book Europe in Budapest - A Guide to its Many Cultures .

He is also one of the initiators and organizers of the international documentary festival PAREVO ( Parallel Revolutions in East-Central Europe ). The festival presents documentaries on the most important events in the history of the Central European region in the 20th century. The first season of the festival takes place in Budapest , Trnava and Warsaw .

He and Ernő Nagy made a documentary film about the history of Polish solidarity with the title “This is how I cry, the son of the Polish land…” Polish solidarity .

He is one of the editors of the quarterly magazine for social criticism and culture with the title Eszmélet ( German "consciousness").

Main publications

• A remény hónapjai… A lengyel Szolidaritás és a szovjet politika (1980–1981). [Months of hope. The polish Solidarity movement and the soviet politics between 1980 and 1981] Budapest, Napvilág Kiadó, 2010. [1]
• After Twenty Years - Reasons and Consequences of the Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Eds: Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, Miklós Mitrovis, Csaba Zahorán. Berlin, OEZ Verlag , 2010. [2]
• Rendszerváltás és történelem. Tanulmányok a kelet-európai átalakulásról. Change of system and history. Studies. Eds .: Tamás Krausz and Miklós Mitrovits and Csaba Zahorán. Budapest, L'Harmattan Kiadó, 2009. [3]
• Kádár János és a 20th századi magyar történelem. Tanulmányok. [János Kádár and Hungarian History in the 20th Century. Studies]. Eds .: György Földes and Miklós Mitrovits. Budapest, Napvilág Kiadó, 2012. [4]

Web links

• List of publications
• Own profile on the academia.edu website
• Own profile on the website of the Institute for Political History

Individual evidence

1. ^ Abstract of the dissertation. (PDF; 107 kB)
2. ↑ A remény hónapjai ... A lengyel Szolidaritás és a szovjet politika, 1980-1981.
3. ↑ De-Stalinization and reforms in Hungary and Eastern-Central Europe, 1953-1968.
4. ↑ Terra Recognita Foundation ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Europe in Budapest - A Guide to its Many Cultures. ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ PAREVO International Documentary Film Festival
7. ↑ "So I cry, the son of the Polish country ..." The Polish Solidarity (Youtube)