Ági cikkei és egyebek/ Articles and Other Reflections by Ági

CEU History Department, public lecture, Gellner room October 14/2015 ·          She has a research on Soviet DPs who went to Australia after WWII! ·          The members of this team were more than Stalin’s “yes-men” ·          Khrushchev got rid of the other members in 1957 ·          Berija and Khrushchev were the only members of the dozen not interested in collective leadership, but rather in their own individual leadership ·          Over   a million Gulag inmates released in a short time after Stalin’s death, as the team released all political inmates ·          Mrs. Molotova brought back from her Stalinist exile in Kazakhstan and reportedly lived happily ever after with Molotov – strange by-way of Soviet history… · ...

CEU Press Book Launch Gellner Room Oct 12/2015 Book presented by Prof. Victor Karády. V. Karády: ·          „over-urbanization” of Jews ·          only Warsaw exceeded Budapest in terms of Jewish population and proportion of Jews in the population ·          between 1/5 and ¼ of Hungary’s Jews lived in Budapest already since the 1870s ·          -> Koerner intervened: However, at the same time Hungary’s Jewry was geographically very dispersed (jól lefedték az orzságot): every 5 th village had Jewish inhabitants ·          a névmagyarosítók 60%-a zsidó volt ·          Koerner: a kiegyensúlyozottság célja volt, megelégelte, hogy a magyar zs történelemről szóló könyvek “downplay” az orthodoxok és a hazsidok jeelntőségét, akik...