Árpád Göncz, first President of Republic of Hungary, former participant of the 1956 Revolution died on 6 October, 2015. He was also the founding member of the board of 1956 Institute Foundation in 1989. Mr. Göncz was interviewed on his life-course by András B. Hegedüs, first in 1985 and later in 1990, just after his election to President.
Edited text of the lengthy interview is available here.

(Árpád Göncz in 2000, Photo: Péter Korniss)

JÁNOS M. RAINER: UNDERGROUND STREAMS—THE SURVIVAL IN HUNGARY OF CONSERVATISM AND RIGHT-WING RADICALISM THROUGH THE PERIOD OF THE SOVIET-TYPE SYSTEM
(Final Report of the Research Project Underground Streams and an Introduction of a Forthcoming Book – Excerpts)

ABOUT US
The 1956 Institute was established on June 17, 1989, the day after the reburial of Imre Nagy and his fellow martyrs. First it was working as a private foundation, then became a public foundation in the spring of 1995 by government decision in view of the important public task it performed. The founding...>>>

A WITNESS TO THE PAST. SALVAGING HUNGARY'S ARCHIVAL HERITAGE
An international petition protesting the Government of Hungary’s planned legislation to allow for the destruction of archival documents pertaining to the country’s communist secret police. Submitted to the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary in Ottawa and to the European Union Delegation to Canada
Edited by: Christopher Adam

The EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION (ESEC),
on October 16, 2010

awarded a Medal of Excellence: Networking Media
to our Internet content entitled:

The photographic database of the 1956 Institute (interactive website)
as an exemplary multimedia product for educational purposes.
Editor: Réka Sárközy, Orsolya Danó
Project head: Zoltán Lux
Photographies about celebration:

For more on the awards see: http://www.euromediaawards.eu/category/euromedia-awards-2010/winners-2010/

PÁL GERMUSKA: RED ARSENAL
Hungary's part in international arms-industry cooperation within COMECON (Hungarian)

MÁRKUS KELLER: THE TEACHER’S PLACE
Professionalization of middle-school teaching in the second half of the 19th century—a Hungarian–Prussian comparison (Hungarian)

"Crimes of Communism"
An international conference was held in Prague on February 24-6, 2010. The 1956 Institute was one of the co-organizers and cooperating partners in the conference. The organizers requested certain three national institutions to prepare national reports. The Hungarian report was prepared by János M. Rainer.

János M. Rainer: Imre Nagy
 
I.B. Tauris, London, New York, 2009
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New internet content:
890616 - THE ANATOMY OF A DAY
(Hungarian)
 
Editor: Rainer M. János és Topits Judit
 

New book:

János Rainer M.: IN A WEB OF REPORTS
JÓZSEF ANTALL AND THE SHATTERED MIRRORS OF STATE SECURITY MAN (in Hungarian)
 

HUNGARY & EASTERN EUROPE - SIXTY YEARS AGO
Dr. László Reiner, Cancer Researcher died
1955. 11. 16-30.

The 1956 Institute has got a press article collection some years ago. The collector probably had been working as a diplomat in the US up to 1947...

THE TRIAL—IMRE NAGY AND HIS ASSOCIATES, 1958, 1989 (in Hungarian)
Editor: Alajos Dornbach, Péter Kende, János Rainer M., Katalin Somlai

SHATTERED MIRRORS—KÁDÁR PERIODS IN PERSONAL RECOLLECTION (in Hungarian)

Editor: Éva Kovács

Gábor Tabajdi - Krisztián Ungváry:
SILENCED PAST. THE PARTY STATE AND THE INTERIOR MINISTRY. THE OPERATION OF THE POLITICAL POLICE IN HUNGARY, 1956-1990 (in Hungarian)

GYÖRGY LITVÁN: LET'S STICK TO THE FACTS
Historico-Political Writings (in Hungarian)

Editors: Éva Gál, Péter Kende

Dear Readers,
The content entitled "PRIVATE HISTORY–1956 AND THE KÁDÁR PERIOD" now contains four new interviews in English.

New book in English:

THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION  AND THE SOVIET BLOC COUNTRIES: REACTIONS AND REPERCUSSIONS
An international conference, Budapest
22-23 September, 2006

Editors: János Rainer M. and Katalin Somlai

New internet content:

HUNGARIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS' COLLECTIONS
internet content

editor: Orsolya Danó, Zoltán Lux

THE OTHER HUNGARY
Critical and opposition movements and groups in Hungary’s Kádár period