Identity Statement

Reference Code

HU OSA 408-2-5

Title

Miscellaneous Documents on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Date(s)

1956 - 1994

Description Level

Series

Extent and medium (processed)

1 Archival boxes, 0.12 linear meters

Context

Name of creator(s)

Varga, László

Archival history

Given the type of the series, it is made up of documents of several collections. Originals are kept in the Budapest City Archives (BFL), the National Archives of Hungary (MNL), the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security (ÁBTL), The Archives of Political History and of Trade Unions (PSZL), the MTI Archives, the National Széchenyi Library and the 1956 Institute and Oral History Archive (OHA).

Content and Structure

Scope and Content (Abstract)

Documents in the series are primarily connected to various events in the revolution, such as János Kádár’s, later secretary general of the communist party (later prime minister), meeting in Moscow on November 3, or historian Péter Hanák’s contemporary diary, who was wounded in the firing on Kossuth Square on October 23. Further documents in the series are notes written during the revolution, documents on events in the countryside (lynching in Miskolc, Mosonmagyaróvár and Salgótarján), MTI news as well as the records registers on 1956 from the Party History Institute of the Central Committee of Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information

Duplicates were removed in the course of processing.

Accruals

Not Expected

System of arrangement

Arranged thematically.

Conditions of Access and Use

Conditions governing access

The general rules of research in OSA Research Room apply.

Conditions governing reproduction

A dokumentumok oktatási és kutatási célból digitálisan másolhatók az OSA kutatótermében.

Languages

Hungarian

Description Control

Archivist's note

Processed by László Varga, March 2, 2015.