Domján Dániel Ferenc: Kényszerpályák és külön utak. Hírszerzés, diplomácia és a magyar–jugoszláv kapcsolatok 1945–1956 - RETÖRKI Könyvek 48. (Budapest, 2022)
Summary
219219 Summary Summary One of the most interesting parts of the post-war Europe’s history – that have a major impact on the socialist countries – is the conflict between the Yugoslav and Soviet leadership that influenced both the internal and foreign affairs of Hungary. In June 1948, the conflict between Tito and Stalin led to the exclusion of the Yugoslav Communist Party from the Cominform. Mátyás Rákosi was one of the first communist leaders who attacked the Yugoslav politics and during the Conflict he served the Soviet interests. Hungary became a “frontline country”, the diplomatic relations between Budapest and Beograd reduced to the minimum level. In the early 50s, the armed incidents on the border happened on a daily basis; furthermore, a war between Yugoslavia and the Socialist Block became a possibility. During the conflict, in the background an “intelligence-war” evolved, the services of the two countries tried to collect more and more information about each other. Stalin’s death became a turning point in the relationship of the two countries, between 1953 and 1956 a slow-paced procession of normalization happened between the Soviet Block and Yugoslavia. The final act of the normalization was a high-ranked Hungarian political delegation’s visit to Yugoslavia in October 1956. The introduction of every aspect of the Hungarian-Yugoslav relation would fill several books, therefore I focused my research mainly on three topics: • In the first part of the book, I introduced the political-historical aspects of the Hungarian–Yugoslav relationship, mainly in chronological order, and added the economic, social and military information if it was necessary. • The second part of the book is about the history of the Hungarian Embassy in Beograd, introducing the relationship of its members and the investigation of the question of how the embassy could work during the conflict. • The third main topic of the book is about the “intelligence-war”, the history of the state security services and its comparison with the similar Hungarian services.
