Historians, researchers and political scientists from Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Finland and the US participated at the conference. They showed the latest results of research into the revolution, as well the event?s effects on an international scale, in light of the 1968 revolt in Prague, the founding of the Solidarnosc union in Poland in 1980 and the peaceful fall of Communism in 1989. Lastly, the conference focused on the treatment of the revolution in the foreign press.
Among the Hungarian participants at the conference were Mária Schmidt, the director of the Terror House museum in Budapest. Péter Kende, the honourary president of the 1956 Institute, and János M. Rainer, the director of the 1956 Institute. Rainer presented the German translation of his biography of Imre Nagy, the Prime Minister of Hungary during the revolution, at the conference, at the same time the book was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The results of cooperation between the various institutions and foundations at the conference, including the Collegium Hungaricum, the Foundation for Research of the Socialist Unity Party Dictatorship and the Centre for Contemporary Historical Research in Potsdam, can be seen at the website www.ungarn1956.de
The conference was part of the Hungarian Cultural Season in Germany.
Source: Múlt-kor / Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
