Please join the Harriman Institute and the East Central European Center for a talk with Csaba Békés, István Deák Visiting Professor of History, Columbia University.

Csaba BÉKÉS, Ph.D., Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, is Research Chair at the Center for Social Sciences, Institute of Political Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and founding director of the Cold War History Research Center (www.coldwar.hu), both in Budapest. He is also Professor of History at Corvinus University of Budapest, a recurring visiting professor at Columbia University and a former Fulbright Visiting Professor at New York University. He is a former research fellow of the Cold War International History Project at the Wilson Center in Washington D.C. and the Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict at New York University. His main field of research is Cold War history, the history of East–West relations, Hungarian foreign policy after World War II, the history of the Soviet Bloc and the role of the East Central European states in the Cold War. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including several on 1956, he is also a contributor of the three volume The Cambridge History of the Cold War (2010). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Cold War Studies and Cold War History. His book, Hungary, the Soviet Bloc and World Politics, 1944–1991 is forthcoming.