An international conference, Budapest
22-23 September, 2006

Editors: János Rainer M. and Katalin Somlai

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