Dr. Szinan Radi

Biography

Szinan Radi is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow and Postdoctoral Affiliate at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. As a social economic historian, his work primarily focuses on state-society relations, everyday economic life, and popular experiences under communist rule in Eastern Europe. Radi completed his PhD in History from the University of Nottingham in 2022, where his thesis examined the social history of the Hungarian forint and its role in the consolidation of communist power from 1945 to the late 1950s. His research includes significant case studies on Hungarian hyperinflation between 1945-46, incorporating themes of loans, lotteries, state loans, and taxes to analyze the impact of money and its perceived value on ordinary citizens' lives during this tumultuous period. Before obtaining his doctorate, he earned a BA in History from Karoli Gaspar University in 2015, a Master's degree in Economic and Social History from the University of Manchester in 2017, and a research Master's in Social Science Research (Economic Social History) from the University of Nottingham in 2019. Currently, he is working on his PhD monograph for publication with Oxford University Press, titled 'Contesting Money: Politics, Time, Value, and the Common Good in Postwar Hungary, 1945–1958', as well as a new book project that examines the global history of money and socialism, with a focus on Eastern Europe's economic and monetary engagement with the Middle East from the 1960s onward.

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