Mihály Csákó (1941–) is a Hungarian sociologist and professor. He studied philosophy and Hungarian language and literature at Eötvös Loránd University (1959–1964). From 1964 to 1970, he was an assistant instructor in the Philosophy Department, but he lost his job because was politically compromised. From 1970 to 1980, he worked as a colleague at the Social Research Institute of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Worker’s Party, where he mainly researched the education of apprentices. He had to leave his workplace, because he signed the Charta Declaration and created a non-official registry office. In 1981, he was given a position at the Centre of Information Science Education and Information of the Central Statistical Office. In 1985, he became active as a liberal professional sociologist. In 1989, he was made a professor in the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy of Eötvös Loránd University, where he served as director in 1994–1995 and 1996–1999. Between 1990 and 1992, he served as caretaker of the Independent Democratic League. As of 2009, he has worked as a professor at the Wesley János Theological Academy.
The historian Srđan Cvetković has comprehensively researched political repression during the start of socialist Yugoslavia, between 1944 and 1953. His particular areas of interest include state repression, human rights, and the Cold War. As a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History in Serbia he published monographs Između srpa i čekića, Represija u Srbiji 1944-1953 [Between the Sickle and the Hammer: Repression in Serbia 1944-1953] (2006), Portreti disidenata [Portraits of the Dissidents] (2007), Bela knjiga 1984 [White Book 1984] (2011), among others, and curated an exhibition U ime naroda! [In the Name of the People!] (2014) about the repression of the communist regime in Serbia. Cvetković was also a member of two state commissions which inquired into the killings and prosecutions of political opponents of the Tito regime.
Lóránt Czigány (1935–2008) was a Hungarian writer, literary historian, professor, and diplomat. He studied Hungarian language and literature and history at the University of Szeged (1954–1956). After the Revolution of 1956, he emigrated to the West. In 1957–1958, he studied at the University of Oxford, and he studied at the University of London in 1958–1960. Between 1962 and 1969, he was a special rapporteur on Hungarian material at the Library of British Museum. In 1969–1973 he taught Hungarian language and literature at the University of California (Berkeley). He was a contributor to the BBC and The Times. In 1965, he was one of the founding members of the Szepsi Csombor Circle in London, he was editor of the Circle’s publications. Between 1977 and 1996 he was a member of the executive body of the International Hungarian Philological Society. He was a guest professor at the Eötvös József College in Budapest in 1986 and 1989. In 1990–1991, he was extraordinary legate and delegated minister at the Hungarian Embassy in London. In 1992–1994, he was a main consultant at the Hungarian Foreign Office. In 1995 he was a guest professor at the University of Miskolc.