Miklós Mitrovits

Miklós Mitrovits ( born April 2, 1978 in Pecs, Hungary) is a Hungarian historian, Polonist, research scientist, principal researcher of the Institute of Political History in Budapest and a member of the public body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Life

In 2004 he obtained his degree in history at the Faculty of Humanities of the Eotvos Lorand University ( ELTE ) and next he graduated from the specialized courses in historical Russian and modern Sovietology. In 2009 he submitted his dissertation in doctoral program of Eastern European history of the 19th and 20th century in the Doctoral School of History ELTE one. He earned a doctorate with the rating "very good" (summa cum laude). In his thesis he analyzed the relationship of the Polish Solidarity movement and the Soviet policy. The doctoral thesis was as a book entitled A remény hónapjai ... A lengyel Szolidaritás és a szovjet politika, 1980-1981: published (Eng. The months of hope ... The policy of the Polish Solidarity and the Soviet policy, 1980-1981).

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

Research

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

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

He is editor of several studies, writings and articles in the known Hungarian magazines ( Múltunk - dt: Our past, Eszmélet - dt: consciousness) and in the weeklies ( élet és Irodalom - Germany: life and literature and Egyenlítő ).

Since 2006 he is Fellow and Senior Research Fellow of the Institute since 2012 the political history in Budapest. In 2012 he was awarded with the membership of the Hungarian Scientific Research Promotion Fund has also won the Janos -Bolyai Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is actively involved in the research project entitled 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 bourgeois 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 festivals PAREVO (Parallel Revolution in East - Central Europe). The festival presents documentaries on the most important events in the history of the Central European Region of the 20th century. The first season of the festival will take place in Budapest, Trnava and Warsaw.

He and Ernő Nagy have a documentary on the history of Polish solidarity with the title "So I cry, the son of Polish country ... " turned the Polish solidarity.

He is one of the editors of the quarterly journal for social critique and culture entitled 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 in between 1980 and 1981 ] Budapest, Napvilág Kiadó, 2010.
• After Twenty Years - Reasons and Consequences of the Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Eds: Krisztián Csaplar - Degovics, Miklós Mitrovis, Csaba Zahorán. Berlin, EET Verlag, 2010.
• 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.
• Kádár János és a 20 magyar századi történelem. Tanulmányok. [ János Kádár and Hungarian History in the 20th Century. Studies]. Eds:. György Miklós Foldes and Mitrovits. Budapest, Napvilág Kiadó, in 2012.