Ungheria 1956 Le verità rivelate
Martedì 6 novembre 2018, alle ore 17.00, presso la Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea (Palazzo Mattei di Giove – Via Michelangelo Caetani 32, Roma), sarà presentato il volume Ungheria 1956. Le verità rivelate, di Giuseppe Averardi, Minerva, 2018. Intervengono: Roberto Cipriani, Luciano Pellicani, Luigi Fenizi. Coordina: Fabrizio Federici. Sarà presente l’autore. Questo libro è il bilancio di un secolo, il Novecento, e...
CfP: Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956
The deadline for proposals is March 31, 2018. The Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies invite proposals for panels and papers for a two-day conference to be held at Uppsala University in September 2018 with the theme ‘Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956’. Over the last 60 years Eastern Europe and Russia have...
Moscow 1956 The Silenced Spring
Kathleen E. Smith Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessor’s abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” of February 25, 1956, shattered the myth of Stalin’s infallibility. In a bid to rejuvenate the Party, Khrushchev had his report read out loud to members across the...
The Invisible Shining
Balázs Apor The Invisible Shining The Cult of Mátyás Rákosi in Stalinist Hungary, 1945-1956 This book offers a detailed analysis of the construction, reception and eventual decline of the cult of the Hungarian Communist Party Secretary, Mátyás Rákosi, one of the most striking examples of orchestrated adulation in the Soviet bloc. While his cult never approached the magnitude of that of Stalin, Rákosi’s ambition to outshine the other...
L’accueil international des réfugiés hongrois de 1956
séminaire central du CERCEC “1917-2017 – Mondes russe, caucasien, centre-asiatique et centre-européen : sources et méthodes” accueillera ce lundi 5 décembre de 17h à 19h, Salle 2, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris : Gusztáv Kecskés D. (Centre de Recherches en Sciences Humaines de l’Académie des Sciences de Hongrie, Institut d’histoire) pour une intervention intitulée : « L’accueil international des réfugiés hongrois de...
