Hungarian Cold War Theater

The curated collection is a significant compilation (approximately 1,400 pages) on the theaters in Hungary from the database of the Radio Free Europe. The freshly published selection comes from the radio's Munich and New York offices, the former containing personal files and the latter containing theater related elements from country-specific thematic folders. Personal files mostly consist of excerpts from articles in Hungarian, while the New York office files contain reports, summaries, and abstracts in English. The collection adds important details to the understanding of the cultural history of the Cold War in general and makes previously unknown sources about the history of the Sovietized Hungarian theater and its Western reception, freely accessible to all researchers and anyone interested through an easily searchable webpage.