CÍMLAP
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Soviet bloc countries: reactions and repercussions
CONTENTS, INTRODUCTION
Contents
János M. Rainer: Introduction
Alexandr Stykalin: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and Soviet public opinion - New sources
Shen Zhihua: Mao and the 1956 Soviet military intervention in Hungary
Ioana Boca: Romania after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - The reaction of the authorities to student protests
Dragoş Petrescu: Fifty-six as an identity-shaping experience - The case of the Romanian communists
Oldřich Tůma: The impact of the Hungarian Revolution on Czechoslovakia, 1956-1968
Juraj Marušiak: Slovakia and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution - A comparison with Slovak perceptions of the Polish October
Łukasz Kamiński: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 as reflected in the Polish Security Service Archives
Katarina Kovačević: The Hungarian refugee problem in Yugoslavia
István Tóth: Fifty-six in Subcarpathia - Influences, consequences and lessons
Renáta Szentesi: Revolution and the intelligentsia - How East German students received the '56 Hungarian Revolution
Introduction
The Budapest 1956 Institute and the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security held a conference on September 22-3, 2006, one month before the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Historians of 15 countries took part and 26 lectures were heard. The conference was opened by Katalin Szili, speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, and introduced by the writer of these lines. The concluding words came from Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, Washington DC. This volume selects ten of the contributions, which appear in an expanded, edited form.
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