Conference Participants

Csaba BÉKÉS, Ph. D. Founding Director, Cold War History Research Center, Budapest (www.coldwar.hu) Senior Research Fellow, 1956 Institute (www.rev.hu) Curriculum vitae/ publications Education: 1978–1983 József Attila University, Szeged, [Majors: History and English language and literature] 1983 M.A. 1989 University Doctor’s degree [History] 1998 Ph.D. Janus Pannonius University, Pécs [History]

Positions:

1983–1987 Archivist, New Hungarian Central Archives, Budapest

1987–1991 Research librarian, National Széchényi Library, Budapest

1989–1992 Visiting lecturer in history, József Attila University,

Szeged

1991– Senior Research Fellow and Research Coordinator (1991–2003),

Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian

Revolution, Budapest

www.rev.hu

1997– 2000 Coordinator, Hungarian Program, Project on Openness

in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

[Based at the National Security Archive, Washington D.C.]

1998 – Founding Director, Cold War History Research Centre, Budapest

www.coldwar.hu

Main interest:

Cold War History, East–West relations;

Hungary's international relations after World War II;

The role of the East Central European states in the Cold War

The history of European integration

Csaba Békés is a senior research fellow at the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the founding director of the Cold War History Research Center, both in Budapest. He received a Ph.D. in 1989 from Szeged University, where he was a visiting lecturer on post-World War II Hungarian foreign policy from 1990–92. Békés  also received a visiting fellowship from the Cold War International History Project, which enabled him to conduct research in American archives. His publications include The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics. Cold War International History Project and Cold War, Détente and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He was an editor of Political Transition in Hungary, 1989–1990. A Compendium of Declassified Documents and Chronology of Events and The 1956 Hungarian Revolution. A history in documents. Békés is a visiting scholar of history at Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary.

Dr. Bekes is the author of several publications, including books.  His full CV can be found online at: http://www.unc.edu/depts/slavic/events/BekesCV.pdf

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