Influences pro and con, and opportunities: Studies on Political Interactions in and Involving Hungary in the Twentieth Century

The studies published in this volume were written by the team of the Institute of Political History in Budapest. It is hoped that the writings will serve as examples of the research projects conducted in the past few years. A similar compilation has already been published under the title Regimes and Transformations: Hungary in the Twentieth Century (Budapest, Napvilág, 2005).We hope that the studies presented in the new volume represent the characteristics of the research projects that are based on previous works but are conducted according to a new concept, while the individual essays can be read out of the context of the book.Our compilation is an attempt to present the diversity of our work as well as the unity in that diversity. Obviously, most of our achievements are published in monographs, essays, conference volumes, and source publications; however, it might not be futile to draw the attention of international academic circles to the goals and achievements of the institute.