Permission of Professor Segal or Professor Deak, Columbia University.
This collection is located on-site.
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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Permission of Professor Segal or Professor Deak, Columbia University.
This collection is located on-site.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Manuscripts: Source of acquisition--Henry Roberts and Alexander Dallin. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1960.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Manuscripts Accessioned 1960.
Manuscripts Processed 07/--/79.
Columbia University's Research Project on Hungary, which was carried out in the late 1950s. This project involved the interviewing of people who left Hungary during the 1956 uprising.
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