About us

Ákos Szabó was born in Budapest in 1979. He is a historian, editor and teacher. He graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Humanities at Károli Gáspár Reformed University. During his university years he won a scholarship to study at the Catholic University of Lublin, where he researched the specificities of communism in Poland in terms of the relationship between church and state. His other research interests include the role of the Hungarian one-party state in everyday life, cinema in communist Czechoslovakia, and the charting of anti-communist figures, movements and social phenomena in the former Eastern Bloc countries. He is an active historian and lecturer in further education, and has worked in the field of school education for more than a decade. His writings have appeared in the periodical “Kommentár” and on the blog “Látószög”.