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Original Articles

Intelligence Against Dissidents: The Kádár-Regime, Control of Dissenting Intellectuals, and the Emerging Civil Society in Hungary after 1956

Pages 75-105 | Published online: 05 Oct 2012

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  • 1997 . Történeti Hivatal) After the change of regime, both Hungarian politics and the public ardently debated the question of how the past of the security and the intelligence organisations who fought the “internal enemies” of socialism should be treated. As a result, a special institution for the administration and review of the files and documents of the AVH was eventually founded in—the Historical Office which had tasks similar to those of the German Gauck-Behörde. Although not all files have yet been transferred to the Historical Office, and although the conditions that were set down for viewing the files have been strongly criticized by former dissidents, the possibilities for research have improved considerably since the founding of the Office. In spite of a broad historical research activity in Hungary regarding recent history, the events of “1956”—i.e., the Uprising and the wave of repression that followed—play such a dominant role in the “struggle for the past” that unfortunately questions of dissidence and opposition during the 1970s and 1980s have received relatively little attention. Only rarely have Hungarian sociologists and political scientists taken on these issues; there are individual studies on specific aspects, but a comprehensible social-scientific analysis is still lacking. Important editions of sources, issued on the basis of archival materials since the early 1990s, document the reactions of the Kádár regime to the memorial protests for the 1848 and 1956 revolutions, the history of the “alternative Free University,” also known as “Mondays University,” and of the different ‘samizdat’ publications that clandestinely printed and distributed government-suppressed literature. In addition, there are a few autobiographies and collections of interviews with dissidents, as well as with former state security officers especially tasked with the persecution of oppositional forces. See, Kiszely Gábor, Allambiztonság 1956–1990 (Budapest: Korona, 2001); Huszár Tibor and Szabeó János, eds., Restauráció vagy kiigazítás. A kádári represszió intézményesülése 1956–62 (Budapest: Zrínyi,1999); Zinner Tibor, A kádári megtorlás rendszere (Budapest: Hamvas Intézet, 2001); Urbán Attila, “A magyar állambiztonsági szolgálatok 1962–1980,” Múltunk 28 (2003): 3–75
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  • Belügyminiszterium, “Ideiglenes segédlet a belügyminiszterium ORFK rendori karhatalom karhatalmi kikepzésenek végrehajtásához” (1957)
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  • Ibid., 5
  • Ibid
  • Ibid
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  • Ibid
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  • Ibid
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  • 1949 . Son of the prominent Communist politician László Rajk, member of the Politiburo, 1946–48, Minister of the Interior as well as Foreign Minister, sentenced to death in a show trial at the behest of Stalin and Rákosi and executed on 15 October 1949
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  • 1956 . In early 1989, the reburial and full rehabilitation of Nagy was pushed through and organized to a large degree by a coordinating committee founded by representatives of all the currents of the opposition, including victims of the repressions. Approximately 200,000 people participated in the ceremony on 16 June in Budapest
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