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Hungarian Refugee Project Records, 1957-1959

686 items

The collection consists of transcripts of the 401 interviews which were done. There is one complete bound set, and one set of loose interviews, nos. 100-626. Most of the interviews cover the following topics: the revolt of 1956, personal life, work experience, economic conditions, social problems, education, friends and family, government, party, police, army, communications, ideology, attitudes, and opinions. There are also a few more unstructured interviews defined as "open ended conversations , largely with expert informants" covering topics such as those above but also including religious affairs, the intelligentsia, and Hungary and the Soviet Union.

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