The Institute of Political History is a company that is outside of the government’s institute-system and it’s a private research place. Besides the historical and societal research works, and the archives and the library, it hosts scientific and cultural events as well. This is an intellectual center that is concentrating first of all on renewing and popularizing the social criticism thinking and the sociological work in the widest range. The institute’s academic journal is Múltunk (Our Past), which is focuses on the Hungarian and international political history of the 19th and 20th century, with special regard to the events after 1944.