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	HU OSA 300-5-46
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL RI)
Subfonds 5:	Analytic Research Department
Series 46:	Records of Aurél Bereznai on the 1956 Revolution: Old Code Subject Files

Date(s) 1951-1958 (1951, 1955-1958)

Extent and medium 7 Archival boxes, 0.88 linear meters

Scope and content

Contains newspaper clippings, news agency releases, and radio monitoring materials.

The materials in this series concentrate mainly on various aspects of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath, covering such topics as foreign, both communist and Western, reactions to the Revolution and the then official interpretation of the "counter-revolution" and its material and mental damage inflicted on society. The most important part of the files deal with the possibilities of emigration, legal and illegal border crossing, repatriation, and the situation of immigrants in various recipient countries.

Accruals Not expected

Language/scripts of material English, Hungarian

Finding aids

• 7 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-40-4 Information Items, 1951-1972
• HU OSA 300-40-1 Subject Files, 1949-1995
• HU OSA 300-40-2 Subject Files in English, 1951-1995
• HU OSA 300-5-41 Records of Aurél Bereznai: Political Trials, 1947-1988
• HU OSA 300-5-47 Records of Aurél Bereznai on the 1956 Revolution: Subject Files, 1948-1986

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed in March 2002 and described in July 2003 by Csaba Szilagyi
Online version updated 8 June 2010