Daniela ApaydinAndrássy University Budapest · History
Daniela Apaydin
PhD
Research Associate at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Head of Publications
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Introduction
I studied Journalism and Communications in Graz and St. Petersburg. After working in both fields, I obtained a Master in Central European Studies as well as a PhD in history from the Andrássy University, Budapest. My research interests focus on transformation history, Cold War studies, social movements, environmentalism with a particular focus on processes of transnationalisation. Professional experience in science communication, journalism and project management.
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October 2015 - June 2017
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Zehntausende Menschen protestierten am 12. September 1988 vor dem ungarischen Parlament gegen das Wasserkraftprojekt Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros. Was mit vereinzelten kritischen Stimmen in der Untergrundpresse begann, entwickelte sich innerhalb weniger Jahre zu einer schlagkräftigen Bewegung gegen den kommunistischen Megabau. Es war kein Zufall, dass sich...
Arguing that the project would risk the water supply of hundreds of thousands of Hungarians along with the flora and fauna of a 200 km-long strip, the activists of the so-called Danube Circle (Duna Kör) mobilised masses at the dawn of the system change in Hungary. Meanwhile on the other side of the Iron Curtain, about 200 km upstream, environmental...
In the same year Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President of the United States and
the communist general Wojciech Jaruzelski introduced martial law in Poland to crush
the Solidarity trade union, a group of activists based in Vienna started a periodical
on the “democratic opposition in Eastern Europe”. “Our goal must therefore be to
create a solid...
