Research interest

Political, legal history and ideology of the East-Central European communist regimes, structure and working of the party state in a comparatistical perspective. Border studies (role and importance of borders and border crossing). History of Czechoslovakia.

Former researches

2007–2009

Ernő Gerő and the Policy of the “Clear Sheet” in 1956

2006–2008

History of the Hungarian State from 1949 to 1989

2004–2006

Political Life of Hódmezővásárhely from 1944 to 1950

2002–

The Age of State Socialism (a database)

1997–2004

History of Hungarian Travel Documents from 1867 to 1990

1994–1997

Place-name Changes in “Europe-Between”

1992–1995

Atlas of “Europe-Between” (with Lajos Pándi, Nándor Bárdi etc.)