Gyorgy Peteri

György Péteri

Center Associate

Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Classical Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

György Péteri is Professor Emeritus of the Department of History and Classical Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. A specialist of late modern and contemporary East Central Europe, particularly Hungary, he has published extensively. He is the author of works such as War Communism in Hungary (1984), Revolutionary Twenties (1995), Academia and State Socialism (1998), and Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking (2002). He has been the initiator, organizer and editor for a large number of collaborative projects yielding edited publications, including Academia in Upheaval (2000 – edited together with Michael David-Fox), Muddling Through in the Long 1960s (2005 – edited together with János M. Rainer), and Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (2010). Péteri's most recent book is The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class. Greed and Creed (Lexington Books, The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, 2023). Currently he is working on a new book project on the political history of social science research (economics and sociology) in Communist era Hungary.