Lakos János: A Magyar Országos Levéltár története (Budapest, 2006)
A képek jegyzéke
party possessed remarkable licenses. Officially, the institution worked under strict supervision of the party. These facts could describe the whole period, but the political methods of the totalitarian battle of classes of the 1950s started to ease gradually in the 1960s indeed. Excluding the period between 1950-1956, the number of the persons on the staff of party organization was negligible. People representing the state security organs (State Security Authority and its successor organs) were constantly present in the National Archives. During the 1950s the Institute of Labour Movement of the Communist Party, roughly violating the professional principles, started to collect systematically records relating to labour movement in a wider sense (state security organs were working in secret) from the archives, and it caused serious harm to the National Archives. The author discusses the events and effects of the revolution of 1956 in a whole chapter. As a result of the invading soviet artillery to defeat the revolution, the building - still bearing the signs of the tragic devastation of World War II - was in the firing line again. Half a hundred artillery hits damaged it, and due to the fire of 6 November three stacks burnt out and 9000 linear metres of records fell prey to the flames. The total restoration of the building had been finished by the beginning of the 1960s. After 1950 exterior premises were used by the National Archives, as well (premises of the Archives of the Károlyi Family, the building of the former Ministry of Finance at Hess András square, a part of the Majláth Palace in Úri street for the purpose of the restoration and book bindery workshops). The development of the units of preservation is also depicted. In the 1950s, the workshops of restoration and rrdcrofilming (in the latter mainly security copies were made) worked under moderate circumstances, but their productivity - due to the modernization - improved in the 1960s. (In the 1950s approximately 500 000, in the 1960s almost 1 500 000 microfilms were taken annually.) Besides the separate microfilm strongrooms, an exterior security microfilm repository was established in the State Archives of Esztergom in 1965. The organization of the institution took shape from the beginning of that period. (The tasks of the Central Economic Archives, operating between 1953-1961, were taken over by the National Archives in 1962.) Within two decades the staff of 50 persons grew to 129, more than to the double of the former workforce. The gradual increase in the number of the employees was stopped only by the rationalization in 1954 resulting in the decrease of the staff by 20%. Before the World War archives were regarded as 529
