Editors: Gábor Gyáni and János M. Rainer

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION

HISTORIOGRAPHY, CONCEPT-RELATED QUESTIONS
GÁBOR GYÁNI: Revolution, uprising, civil war. The conceptual dilemmas of 1956
ZOLTÁN RIPP: Problems, gaps and disagreements in the historiography of 1956

THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION
MARK PITTAWAY: A new approach to the Hungarian Revolution: the industrial working class and the disintegration and reconstruction of socialism, 1953-1958
ZSUZSANNA VAJDA AND LÁSZLÓ EÖRSI: "Holy youths": the participants in the 1956 uprising
GÁBOR GYÁNI: The social-history paradoxes of the revolution

REVOLUTIONARY MOBILIZATION
JÁNOS M. RAINER: State violence and resistance in Hungary
SÁNDOR HORVÁTH: Collective violence and urban use of space in 1956
ÉVA STANDEISKY: Sensibility and sense in the 1956 Revolution
ÁGNES TÓTH: Accused, charges and sentences in Bács-Kiskun County after 1956
THE HISTORY OF SYMBOLS AND IDEAS IN THE REVOLUTION
ÉVA STANDEISKY: Ideas in the 1956 Revolution
SÁNDOR RÉVÉSZ: Communists in the revolution
ÉVA STANDEISKY: The past followed and rejected in the 1956 Revolution
GYÖRGY GYARMATI: The revolution of the Kossuth coat of arms in 1956

THE HUNGARIAN FIFTY-SIX AND THE WORLD
DAVID HOLLOWAY AND VICTOR McFARLAND: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the context of Cold War military confrontation
GÜNTER BISCHOF: After-lunch nap: Eisenhower and the 1956 Hungarian crisis
ZOLTÁN SZ. BÍRÓ: The unofficial response to 1956 in the Soviet Union

REPRESENTATION OF THE REVOLUTION
PÉTER P. MÜLLER: Reinterpretation of 1956 in the dramas and on the stage of the Kádár period
THOMAS COOPER: Reconstructing the mode of depiction: 1956 ideas and the literature
GÉZA BOROS: Buried pictures. The use of photography in the memorial cult of the 1956 Revolution
SÁNDOR RADNÓTI: The drama of multitude. Notes on the play by András Papp and János Térey: looking outwards and looking back

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE REVOLUTION
JÚLIA VAJDA: 1956-survivors tell their story
ESZTER ZSÓFIA TÓTH: The survival stories of working men and women