Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Levéltár (Haj dú-Bihar County Archives)

Among the collections that of manuscript maps may be utilized for the history, ethnography, even the economy of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. The Archives preserves considerable material of the socialist period as well. Of the records of revolutionary authorities of the 1919 Councils' Republic those of the Debrecen Workers' and Soldiers' Council and the Debrecen Directorate are the most complete, mirroring the manifold activities of the power of the workers. The National Commissions (from the autumn of 1944 to 1949) show the spontaneous formation of new popular power after the liberation, the Screening Commissions (1945-1949) the investigation of former right wing and anti-people activities, the Land Claimants' Commissions (1945-1947) the execution of the land reform. The records of the councils are the sources of the development of socialist administration from the years between 1950 and 1957; especially remarkable are those of the County Council, the Debrecen City Council and the councils of the cities Hajdúböszörmény, Hajdúnánás and Hajdúszoboszló. Among the records of the organs of state administration those of the Land Boards of Bihar and Hajdu counties, later of Hajdu-Bihar county contain the most important data of the execution of land reform between 1945 and 1950. Agricultural development may be followed in the papers of the Hajdu and Bihar county Economic Inspectorates (1944-1949) and of the Agricultural Directorates of the same counties (1949-1950). The technical and production data of the factories are surveyed in the records of the Debrecen Regional Trade Inspectorate (1945-1949). In the socialist period we mention the following organs of jurisdiction: the Debrecen Public Prosecution (1945-1950) and the Debrecen Popular Public Prosecution (1945-1949). The former was competent for ordinary delicts, the latter for war and anti-people crimes. The material of the law courts and the Debrecen Advocates' Chamber still awaits taking over. Educational institutions of the socialist period are represented by a scanty material yet. The papers of the Debrecen Popular College (1947-1949) are remarkable sources for the democratic education of students. Also the socialist period produced papers of corporations. Those of the Regional Inspectorate of Social Insurance for the Prevention of Accidents (1949-1953) contain the descriptions of the machinery of factories, adding the factory surveys of the predecessor, the Industrial Inspectorate. This archival group begins with 1912. The records of the Transtibiscan Agricultural