Bukovszky László: A Csehszlovákiai Magyar Demokratikus Népi Szövetség és a Mindszenty-per szlovákiai recepciója (Budapest-Somorja, 2016)
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sistance against the chauvinistic policies of the Czechoslovak government. It is also of equal importance to record that during the state security investigation of Csmadnész and Bokor's group, there had already been a close cooperation between the political police of the two countries—Czechoslovakia and Hungary—, prior to the conclusion of the bilateral treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance signed on 16 April 1949. The true picture of the retaliation against and the political trial of Csmadnész and Bokor 's group can only be assessed in the context of the anti-church policies of the Central European state socialist countries, mainly that of Czechoslovakia and Hungary. After all, the trial was directed, besides chastising Hungarians who had stayed in their homeland, against the Catholic Church, the relationship of the two groups with Mindszenty only served as a pretext. During our work we had relied on archival sources. Thus we tried to counterbalance the missing special literature on the subject. The historical works published so far only give a vague reference—if at all—to the activities of Csmadnész. Of course, in order to get a much broader and more detailed picture on the issue, we explored the available literature devoted to the years of disenfranchisement and to church persecution—especially that of the Catholic Church—in both countries, and within that, on the Mindszenty trial. During archival research and assembling the book, we were focusing on sources having so far evaded the attentions of researchers both in Hungary and Slovakia. From among such materials, we would like to highlight especially the more than one thousand pages investigation file of the Czechoslovak communist secret police (ŠtB) concerning László Arany Adalbert and comrades, the detained contemporary papers (Észak Szava, Gyepű Hangja) used as evidence proving the accusation, the one thousand pages documentation of the trial at the Bratislava State Court, documents on the prison term of those convicted, the investigation material of the Mindszenty trial held by the Archives of the Primate of Hungary in Esztergom and by the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security, the sources relating to the activities of Csmadnész in the National Archives of Hungary and in the funds of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In order to give the reader the most complete picture on the activities of the Democratic People's Alliance of Hungarians in Czechoslovakia (Csmadnész), we included at the annex of this book a list of the mostly unpublished contemporary documents, and the index is supposed to help orientation in the publication. 297
