Hungarian Uprising. 60 years on

... developments in 2013—2014, for the fact that the urban lumpen proletariat seized the initiative and hijacked the movement aimed at cleansing the country’s politics? Above all it is the power which tolerated the existence of these social strata. The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 did leave a mark on the country’s history. Realising the need to improve people’s living conditions, the Communist Party of Hungary adopted a moderate form of socialism dubbed “gulyash communism.” The repressive apparatus was downsized while some social spheres –education, culture, healthcare and others – were in some ways liberalised and small private ...