Wilson Center Experts
Balazs Szalontai
Public Policy Scholar
History and Public Policy Program
Contact Information:
T 202/691-4329
// F 202/691-4001
Expertise:
History
Affiliation:
Fulbright Scholar; Visiting Professor, Mongolian International University of Science and Technology, School of Industrial Technology and Design, Mongolia
Wilson Center Project(s):
"The Korean War in Stalin's Global Strategy, 1948–1953"
Term:
Sep 01, 2008
May 01, 2009
Expertise
Korea; Vietnam; Cambodia; Laos; Mongolia; Albania; former Soviet Union
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The Elephant in the Room: The Soviet Union and India’s Nuclear Program, 1967-1989
Nov 17, 2011NPIHP Working Paper #1. If India had presented the world with a nuclear fait accompli, the eminent Indian journalist Amalendu Das Gupta mused in 1987, “the Americans and their allies would have been angry; the Russians would have been unhappy." more
Kim Il Sung in the Khruschev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Role of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964
Jul 07, 2011Concentrating on the years 1953-64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization. more
North Korea's Efforts to Acquire Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Weapons: Evidence from Russian and Hungarian Archives
Jul 07, 2011CWIHP Working Paper No. 53 more
Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Roots of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964
Cold War International History Project Series
Oct 01, 2005
Concentrating on the years 1953-64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization. more
The Elephant in the Room: The Soviet Union and India’s Nuclear Program, 1967-1989
Nov 17, 2011NPIHP Working Paper #1. If India had presented the world with a nuclear fait accompli, the eminent Indian journalist Amalendu Das Gupta mused in 1987, “the Americans and their allies would have been angry; the Russians would have been unhappy."
Kim Il Sung in the Khruschev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Role of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964
Jul 07, 2011Concentrating on the years 1953-64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization.
North Korea's Efforts to Acquire Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Weapons: Evidence from Russian and Hungarian Archives
Jul 07, 2011CWIHP Working Paper No. 53
Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Roots of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964
Cold War International History Project Series
Oct 01, 2005
Concentrating on the years 1953-64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization.