“Should all our plans come to fruition, our research group’s final output will consist of twelve to fourteen volumes, dozens of professional and popular articles, presentations, and conferences by 2021. These results should enable us to present Hungarian society with fresh and valid knowledge that establishes a framework for thinking and learning about Trianon for decades to come. On the other hand, we strive for an »about-face« that is long overdue in our historical scholarship. While research into political and diplomatic history remains important, we wish to give a larger role to social and cultural history as well as to the history of mentalities. We also provide a broader, regional comparative perspective, in order to have a more complex understanding of what happened to Hungary between 1918–24” – writes Ablonczy in his report After One Hundred Years: The “Trianon 100” Research Group of the Momentum Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The full text is available here.