Hungary, the USSR, and the Cold War
Journal: Journal of Cold War Studies
Year: 2025

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 encountered the sort of bureaucratic obstruction confrontin