CV Dr. Földes György

Family name

Földes

First name

György

Date of birth

December 30, 1952

Place of Birth

Budapest, Hungary

Citizenship

Hungarian

Profession

historian, general director of institute

Office address

Institute of Political History

Home address

1025 Budapest, Szemlőhegy utca 23/B

Telephone

00/36/1/301-4920

Telefax

00/36/1/301-4922

E-mail

gyfoldes@phistory.hu

Schools attended

 

1972-1977, Faculty of Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences /ELTE/ majoring in history and sociology

Scholarships

1982, 2003, Moscow

1998, Great Britain, at London University sponsored by British Council

Foreign languages

English, Russian good,

French fair

Qualifications

1979, Hungarian doctoral degree

 

1995, PhD in History

Employment history

1991- general director of Institute of Political History

1977-1989, researcher - Institute of Party History

1989-1990, political expert

Research specialization

 

  • issues of economic policy and economic management after 1945
  • history of socialist ideology
  • the history of Kádár era

Teaching Experience

 

1986-1989, as an associate professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest courses: politics, history of Hungary after 1945

1992- associate professor  Department of Early Modern and Modern Hungarian History, Faculty of Humanities, ELTE, Budapest courses: social, economical and political history of Hungary after 1945

Publications

Author of 4 books in Hungarian

1. Hatalom és mozgalom 1956-1989 (Power and Movement 1956-1989), Kossuth, Bp., 1989.

2. Az eladósodás politikatörténete 1957-1986 (Political History of Indebtedness 1957-1986), Maecenas, Bp., 1995.

3. Rendszer - hatalom és baloldal Magyarországon 1994 után (System - Power and the Left in Hungary after 1994), Napvilág, Bp., 1998.

4. Magyarország, Románia és a nemzeti kérdés 1956-1989 (Hungary, Romania and national question 1956-1989), Napvilág, Bp., 2007.

 

Editor, co-editor of 5 books

 

Author of 43 studies

 

Author of 4 articles