Hungarian National Peace Council
The Hungarian National Peace Council sought to aid international peace and nuclear non-proliferation. It led a network of local peace committees inside Hungary that functioned as outlets to address international issues. The Council was loosely affiliated with the communist-leaning World Peace Council. The political hierarchy of the Hungarian People’s Republic used the National Council to propagate anti-Western initiatives. To this end, the peace movement in Hungary had to abide by the agenda of the National Peace Council and, external peace initiatives were deemed illegitimate.
Fuentes
Tismaneanu, V. (1990). In search of civil society: Independent peace movements in the Soviet bloc. New York: Routledge. (P. 35, peace initiatives in Hungary)
Rose, C. (1985). Campaigns against western defence: NATO's adversaries and critics. London: Macmillan. (P. 226, National Peace Council and youth festival in Budapest, July to August, 1949)
Keefe, E. K., American University Washington, D.C.. (1973). Area handbook for Hungary. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. (P. 165, National Peace Council)
Parragi, G. (1952). The Hungarian peace movement. Budapest: National peace council (Overview of Hungarian peace movement)