Polski wpływ na proces kształtowania się opozycyjnych partii politycznych na Węgrzech (1981–1989)
Polish Impact on the Process of Emergence of Opposition Political Parties in Hungary (1981–1989)

Summary/Abstract: The story of the formation of the Hungarian democratic opposition movement in the late 1970s is inseparable from that of the Polish opposition movement. The events in Poland – especially the foundation of the “Solidarity” union in 1980 – exerted a decisive influence on the thinking, activism and program of the Hungarian opposition. The paper explores the ways in which the Polish opposition impacted the emergence of the forums of a „second public” in Hungary (so-called free universities and samiz- dat), of street movements, solidarity action, program debates and the new political parties. The author analyses the documents of the former Hungarian and Polish State Security related to opposition contacts, the collection of the Open Society Archives in Budapest, the samizdat materials from 80’s. He also made interviews with the main representatives of the Hungarian and Polish opposition, who took part in building of the relations. This paper is a part of the pre-release monograph written by the author, which describe the all history of the Polish-Hungarian relations in opposition between 1976 and 1989.

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