Történetírás Magyarországon, 1949–1990
Historiography in Hungary, 1949–1990

Summary/Abstract: The Stalinist political model which was introduced in Hungary in 1948–1949 profoundly modified the institutional framework of scientific life in general and of the historical science in particular. Scientific planned economy was part of the system of institutions of a political regime concieved in the atmosphere of the Cold War. In return for ist maintenance by the state, science had to comply with the expectations of the proletarian dictature with regard to agitation and propaganda. All this involved, of course, the ideological and political stigmatisation of pre-war “bourgeois” historiography. The present study, which is the unaltered and as yet unpublished text of a lecture held in 1991, tries to answer two questions: firstly, how politically determined was the science of history during the soviet regime, and to what extent was it successful in profiting from favourable occasions in order to make professional attitudes prevail; secondly, what role did the science of history played in preparing the change of regime?

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