Csaba Békés

Biographic Data

ID6676942
NAMECsaba Békés
GIVEN NAMESCsaba
FAMILY NAMEBékés
SIGNATUREBÉKÉS C
AFFILIATIONSCorvinus University of Budapest
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Hungary, the USSR, and the Cold War

    Csaba Békés, Balázs Szalontai et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2025

    Csaba Békés, Hungary's Cold War: International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet Union. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 400 pp. $39.95.Thanks to the Hungarian Archives Act of 1995, which made pre-1990 records accessible to the public, scholars interested in the diplomatic history of the Hungarian Communist regime have rarely been hindered by the so-called 30-year rule.1 Nor have they encounter…

  • Hungary and the Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact (1988–1991)

    Csaba BékésARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2023Cited by: 1

    After the demise of Communism in East-Central Europe in 1989–1990, the new, non-Communist governments in the region had to consolidate their countries’ independence. The basic institutions of Soviet domination in East-Central Europe—the Warsaw Pact, the Council for Economic Mutual Assistance (CMEA), four large contingents of Soviet troops, and various other mechanisms of intra-bloc integration—still existed, and Soviet leaders hoped they could pr…

  • Hungary, the Soviet Bloc, the German Question, and the CSCE Process, 1965–1975

    Csaba BékésARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2016

    This article analyzes Hungarian and Soviet-bloc policies vis-à-vis the German question and European security in the period preceding the signature of the Helsinki Final Act, based on extensive use of records of the Warsaw Pact's highest-level multilateral meetings. During these crucial years, the leaders of the Soviet bloc were sharply divided, and the formulation of a unified position concerning the Helsinki process was possible only after fierc…

  • Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary, and Austria 1944/45–1948/49

    Csaba Békés, Laszlo Borhi et al.EDITORBOOKSoviet Occupation of Romania,…2015

    This book compares the various aspects – political, military economic – of Soviet occupation in Austria, Hungary and Romania. Using documents found in Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian archives the authors argue that the nature of Soviet foreign policy has been misunderstood. Existing literature has focused on the Soviet foreign policy from a political perspective; when and why Stalin made the decision to introduce Bolshevik political sys…

  • The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Declaration of Neutrality

    Csaba BékésARTICLECold War History2006Cited by: 2References: 5

    On 1 November 1956 the Hungarian government denounced the Warsaw Pact and unilaterally declared the country's neutrality. At the same time Imre Nagy, the Communist Prime Minister, turned to the United Nations and requested that the four Great Powers help defend Hungary's neutrality. This was an unprecedented act in the whole history of the Soviet bloc, and therefore many students of the Hungarian revolution came to the conclusion that the denounc…

  • The 1956 Hungarian revolution and the great powers

    Csaba BékésARTICLEJournal of Communist Studies1997References: 8

    Ever since 1956 there has been much speculation about the impact of the international situation on the outcome of the Hungarian revolution, particularly the almost simultaneous Suez crisis. Recently opened archives reveal the complexity of thinking on the part of various world powers at the time, including the Soviet Union and the United States. As far as the latter is concerned, it is clear that it was reluctant to become involved in affairs wit…