Nationality Hungarian Occupation Historian | Name Miklos Mitrovits | |
Born April 2, 1978 (age 45) ( 1978-04-02 ) Pecs, Hungary Alma mater Eotvos Lorand University | ||
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Miklós Mitrovits (born 2 April 1978.) historian, polonist, scientific researcher. Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities of Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Member of public body of the Hungarian Academy of Science.
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Academic career
He was graduated from the History Studies of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and parallel with his M.A. studies he completed specialization courses in Historical Russistics and Modern Sovietology. In 2009 he was granted his Ph.D. with summa cum laude at the 19th and 20th Century Eastern European History Doctoral School. He analyzed in his dissertation the Soviet policies towards polish crisis in 1980–1981. It was published in a book entitled A remény hónapjai… A lengyel Szolidaritás és a szovjet politika 1980–1981 [en: Months of hope. The polish Solidarity movement and the soviet politics between 1980 and 1981].
Between 2004 and 2008 he was studying at the Polish Studies and Central European Studies of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Piliscsaba, and also studied in Warsaw University in 2010.
Work
From 2003 he has regularly researched in different archives in Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Russia. His main research field is the contemporary history of Eastern Europe after World War II, mainly the history of Poland, the Polish-Hungarian relationship and he also analyze the characteristics of the political, economic and cultural development of the East-Central European countries. His greatly concern about the comparative research of the counties of this region, mainly the "entanglement history" (de:Histoire croisée) of these countries after World War II: relationships, interactions and attempts at integrations between Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
He has several publications concerning the foreign policy of the Kádár era in Hungary, particularly the Hungarian-Polish and Hungarian-Czechoslovakian relationships. He has edited numerous collections of studies and documents. Mitrovits also writes studies, essays and articles for the main Hungarian periodical (for example: Múltunk [en: Our Past]), weekly (Élet és Irodalom) and quarterly (Eszmélet).
From 2006 he was a scholarship holder, and then from 2012 he is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Political History in Budapest. In 2012 he was awarded the fellowship of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (Hungarian abbreviation: OTKA) and he also got the "János Bolyai" Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is taking part in the research project at the Institute of Political History entitled De-Stalinization and reforms in Hungary and Eastern-Central Europe (1953–1968).
Other activities
Member of the Board of the Terra Recognita Foundation - Central European non-governmental foreign policy initiative. Participation in the editorial work the book "Europe in Budapest - A Guide to its Many Cultures", which was published also to mark the Hungarian Presidency at the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2011.
Instigator and organizer of the “PAREVO – Parallel Revolutions in East-Central Europe – International Documentary Film Festival“. The festival aimed to present a selection of documentary films about the history of the East-Central European countries and to popularize European democracy and citizenship among the youth by creating cross-border thematic events: film-screenings, academic lectures, public meetings and youth-conferences.
In association with filmmaker Ernő Nagy I made a documentary film about the history of Polish Solidarity movement. Titled “And I cry, I a son of the Polish land...“ The Polish Solidarity movement, the film was first shown in 2010.
Moderator of a regular session called “History Lessons: Freedom“, which are to hold once in a month during 2014. The sessions provide a room for discussions about the times of the political transformation in 1989, the history and the characteristics of the Polish Solidarity movement. The events are organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Polish Institute, Budapest.