Institute of Political History

rdf:langString Institute of Political History

rdf:langString The Institute of Political History (Hungarian: Politikatörténeti Intézet, PTI), the legal successor of the former Institute of Party History (Hungarian: Párttörténeti Intézet) is a left-wing public utility private research institute and think-tank located in Budapest, Hungary, outside the Hungarian governmental institute-system strongly associated with the left-wing MSZP party. It is aiming and organizing the multifold scientific research of the recent past and the present age. Besides history it is widening its focus on other social sciences as well. It helps the birth of new scientific results with tenders, scholarships, support of individual and team researches. It enables the public usage of the documents of national value kept in the archives and library of the institute. Besides the historical and societal research works, it hosts scientific conferences and cultural events as well. It is a kind of intellectual center that is concentrating first of all on renewing and popularizing social criticism in the widest range of the term. For the publication of the results of the researches the Foundation operates a detached publishing house, Napvilág Kiadó, and publishes the historical quarterly Múltunk (Our Past).