Stefano Bottoni

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Stefano Bottoni
Stefano Bottoni.jpg Stefano Bottoni.jpg On his 2019 book launch
Born	Stefano Bottoni (1977-07-07) July 7, 1977 Bologna, Italy
🏳️ Nationality	Italian, Hungarian
🏳️ Citizenship	Italian, Hungarian
🏫 Education	University of Bologna
💼 Occupation
Known for	Sztálin a székelyeknél. A Magyar Autonóm Tartomány története (1952–1960)
👶 Children	2

Stefano Bottoni (born July 7, 1977) is an Italian-Hungarian historian and author, whose main area of research is the history of Hungarian minorities in Romania, and the history and nature of today's Hungary.

Early life

He was born in Bologna, Italy to an Italian father and a Hungarian mother. In 1991, he was admitted to the Marco Minghetti secondary school in Bologna. Between 1996 and 2001, he studied modern history at the University of Bologna. He obtained his master's degree in 2001 (summa cum laude), regarding the history of Eastern Europe. His thesis: Le minoranze ungheresi nell'Europa centro-orientale 1944–1948(Hungarian minorities in Central-Eastern Europe, 1944–1948). His supervisors were prof. Francesco Benvenuti and prof. Carla Tonini. In 2001, he was also a contributor at the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation. After earning his MSc, he also set out to earn a PhD in Bologna. He took part in a doctoral program called "Storia d'Europa" (History of Europe). With the help of his doctoral advisors Francesco Benvenuti, Carla Tonini and prof. Dennis Deletant, he completed his PhD at the University of Bologna in 2005. His dissertation: Territorialità e politica etnica in Europa centro-orientale: il caso della Regione Autonoma Ungherese in Romania, 1952–1960(Territoriality and ethnopolitics in Central-Eastern Europe: The case of the Hungarian Autonomous Region, 1952–1960).

Career

Between 2001 and 2004, he was a contributor at the László Teleki Foundation. After earning his PhD in 2005, he remained at the University of Bologna as a lecturer for 8 years. In 2009, he was a guest lecturer at the University of Debrecen. Between 2007 and 2011, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Piedmont. Between 2009 and 2011, he was a fellow at the Institute of History, Research Center for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2012, he is a senior fellow there. In the first semester of the year 2014/2015, he taught Hungarian history at ELTE. In the year 2017/2018, he taught modern Hungarian history (Hungary after 1989) at the University of Szeged. Since 2019, he has been an associate professor at the University of Florence.

Research fields

• Modern history of Central Europe and its politics and society;
• Modern history of Romania
  • Construction of nation and state in communist Romania;
  • History of the Hungarian Autonomous Region (1952–1960);
  • History of Hungarian minorities in Romania (mainly those of Transylvania);
• Modern history of Hungary
  • The political system of post-communist Hungary, and Hungary under Viktor Orbán
• Political and economical relations between Hungary and Italy after the Second World War

Archives research

• 2002 London, Public Record Office, Foreign Office;
• 2002-2003 Budapest, National Archives of Hungary (MOL);
• 2003-2004 Bucharest, Arhivele Nationale, Arhiva CNSAS, Arhiva CSIER;
• 2003-2004 Marosvásárhely, Maros Megyei Archívumok Igazgatósága;

Presentor on international scientific conferences

• 2001 Trento (Bibó conference);
• 2002 Oxford (Central Europe conference);
• 2002 Forlì (ASEN special convention);
• 2002-2003 Budapest (annual conferences of the László Teleki Foundation);
• 2003 Nagyszeben (Minorities under Stalinism);
• 2003 Lecce (SISSCO annual conference);
• 2004 Paris (Le communisme et les élites en Europe Centrale);

Editorial activity

• Il Mestiere di Storico (Between 2007 and 2011);
• Revista Arhivelor (Since 2007);
• Quaderni Storici (Between 2011 and 2013);
• Világtörténet (Between 2012 and 2015 as a managing editor; Since 2016 as an editor);

Scientific memberships

• 2001– Centro di studi sulla storia dell'Europa orientale (CSSEO, Trento);
• 2003– Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCO, Rome);
• 2005– Associazione Italiana Studi di Storia dell'Europa Centrale e Orientale (AISSECO, Rome);
• 2012– Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies;
• 2014– OTKA/NKFI juryman;
• 2015– Society for Romanian Studies;
• 2016– Association for the Study of Nationalities;

Bibliography

• Az 1956-os forradalom és a romániai magyarság. 1956–1959; Pro-Print, Csíkszereda, 2006 (Források a romániai magyarság történetéhez);
• István Bibó et al., ed.: Il problema storico dell’indipendenza ungherese; Marsilio, Venice, 2004;
• Sztálin a székelyeknél. A Magyar Autonóm Tartomány története. 1952-1960; Pro-Print, Csíkszereda, 2008 (Múltunk könyvek);
• Transilvania roşie. Comunismul român şi problema naţională 1944-1965, 2010;
• A várva várt Nyugat. Kelet-Európa története 1944-től napjainkig; transl. Gábor Andreides; MTA BTK Institute of History, Budapest, 2014 (Magyar történelmi emlékek. Értekezések);
• A várva várt Nyugat. Kelet-Európa története 1944-től napjainkig; transl. Gábor Andreides; 2. rev. ed.; MTA BTK Institute of History, Budapest, 2015 (Magyar történelmi emlékek. Értekezések);
• Long Awaited West. Eastern Europe since 1944. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2017;
• Egy különleges kapcsolat története – A magyar titkosszolgálat és a Szentszék, 1961–1978 ("A special relationship. Hungarian intelligence and the Vatican, 1961-1978");
• 1956 Romániában – Eseménytörténet és értelmezési keretek;
• Orbán: Un despota in Europa; Salerno Editrice, Rome, 2019;
• Un altro Novecento. L'Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi, Carocci, 2021;
• A hatalom megszállottja – Orbán Viktor Magyarországa. Magyar Hang Könyvek, Budapest, 2023;

Awards

• Akadémiai Ifjúsági Díj ("Academic Youth Award") (2011);
• Péter Hanák Award (2012)

References

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