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Zoltán Tófalvi

ZOLTÁN TÓFALVI (Korond, 1944), historian, writer, journalist and television editor. His research focuses on Transylvanian and Romanian echoes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, as well as on popular ceramics of the Szekler Land. He is the author of eleven monographs and several hundred articles published in Hungary, the United States, Sweden, Germany and Romania. He has been awarded several distinctions, including the prize of the Hungarian Journalists’ Association in Romania (1997) and that of the periodical Székelyföld (2002). Tófalvi has published three thick volumes on the so-called “high treason trials” mounted in Romania after the fall of the ’56 Revolution; the fourth volume is to appear soon.

DEATH MARCH REDUX: THE ’56 REVOLUTIONARIES OF TRANSYLVANIA

AN EXEGESIS OF POLITICAL PRISONS IN ROMANIA The labour camps known as the “Gulag”, which continue to stand as an eternal memento of human suffering, were intended by the powers of the day as a venue for humiliating and, ultimately, physically annihilating political prisoners. In effect, no information about these