Documents

Perhaps the most valuable material in the Research Group's collection is the documents, which remain almost completely untouched. A significant part of the collection consists of carefully preserved personal papers: Ferenc Nagy's personal documents, manuscripts, publications (books, journalistic articles, etc.), notebooks, notes, invitation letters, reports, and materials, reports, and press clippings prepared by his former colleagues (e.g., Mihály Hőgye, István Csicsery-Rónay, Ferenc Pishky). In addition to personal and family documents, his personal correspondence and secret reports (e.g., those written for the CIA), as well as his diplomatic letters and telegrams (e.g., his request to Nehru to save István Bibó's life) are particularly valuable. Also relevant are the Hungarian state security reports from the Kádár era, in which Ferenc Nagy was given the code name "Gazda" (Farmer).

Through digitization, the documents have been characterized (OCR) and organized into a database, making them searchable and facilitating research. One of our goals is to map Ferenc Nagy's correspondence network using a geographical and digital humanities approach.

Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Bakhmeteff Archives.