Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 361-0-4

Title

Personal Files, Documents

Date(s)

1953 - 1991

Description Level

Series

Extent and medium (processed)

31 Archival boxes, 3.88 linear meters

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

The files and documents in this series provide an overview of András Hegedüs` life. The subject files reflect certain issues that concerned him most.
Among them we separated out those of mainly private interest, such as documents relating to the upkeep of his flat and his weekend house in Fonyód (near Lake Balaton), files connected to the his wife's work, the financial affairs of the family, household expenses, family travels, and documents concerning his illness at the end of his life.
One of the most interesting documents is the inventory of items he possessed when he returned to Budapest from Moscow in 1958. The Russian language identity card with which he was allowed to move around in Hungary in 1945 may be of special interest. Hegedüs did not keep a regular diary, but his fragmentary notes from the critical days of 1956 provide an insight into the facts and events that he recorded from his own point of view. The following files might be of even greater political relevance: documents about his protest against the Czechoslovak intervention in 1968, his correspondence with György Aczél on this issue, the documents relating to his exclusion from the party, the files of the III/III department of the political police. The political police started to collect information about him after he began to regularly attend the meetings of the democratic opposition and the sessions of the "Flying University". The documents relating to various periods of the MDP (Hungarian Workers Party) and MSZMP (Hungarian Socialist Workers Party) are also filed in this series as well as the files relating to retroactive justice after the regime change. Finally, a significant part of the series consists of different versions of the manuscripts of his memoirs that were wholly or partly published in his books, and also fragments that have never been published. The files that document the creation of his most important book "Enchanted by History and Power", from his first notes through several drafts up to the final version of the manuscript, deserve special attention.

Accruals

Not Expected

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

No special restriction applies

Conditions governing reproduction

Az OSA Archívum kutatótermében az anyag oktatási és kutatási célokra digitálisan másolható.

Languages

Hungarian

Description Control

Archivist's note

Arranged by Loránt Holtzer, June, 2003; described by Loránt Holtzer and András Mink, January, 2004; revised by Katalin Dobó and Pavol Šalamon, February - March, 2004; revised by Gabriella Ivacs and Judit Hegedüs, July, 2014.