Kézi vezérelt nemzetköziesítés: A Magyar Népköztársaság nemzetközi törekvéseinek hatása a magyar felsőoktatásra az Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem p&#233...

For the Hungarian People's Republic, the events of the world politics in the 1960s allowed for significant international activity. Respecting the framework of the regime, decades of active engagement on both sides of the Iron Curtain could be initiated. Considering the country's resources, one of the most important elements in its foreign relations efforts was the continuous expansion of cultural and educational relations, which allowed the country's higher education system--which experienced extensive growth during the same period--to play a prominent role. The Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), one of the largest higher education institutions in Hungary, hosted students from nearly 90 countries with its diverse training portfolio. The internationalization process promoted by the government provided the university with a major opportunity to build a position in the wider international academic community, to establish partnerships, to diversify its training, and to improve its quality continuously. Relations with capitalist and developing countries were particularly valuable. At the same time, it was confronted with a number of problems in teaching and supporting incoming students, as well as systemic rigidities and inadequate funding, problems which remained unresolved before the transition. This paper seeks to showcase these processes through archival documents and contemporary press sources, examining the opportunities, constraints, and challenges from an institutional perspective, thus illustrating the frequent political ambitions of the state and its political institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]