1956
A conference held on Saturday 4th February 2006,
9.30 - 4.00
at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU
Nineteen fifty-six was the year of Khrushchev's secret speech, the year of the Russian invasion of Hungary and the Anglo-French invasion of Suez.
Fifty years on, the London Socialist Historians Group organised a one day event to assess the historical significance of the events of 1956, particularly in terms of its impact on the left.
Papers presented at the conference
- Sami Ramadani: "Iraq 1920; Egypt 1956, Iraq 2003"
- Stan Newens: "Suez, Trafalgar Square 1956"
- Nigel Willmott: "Hungary 1956 - The Writing on the Wall"
- Mike Haynes: "Accumulation and the Hungarian Revolution - Some Origins of 1956 in Hungary"
- Mark Pittaway: "Rethinking the Hungarian Revolution: Industrial Workers, the Disintegration and Reconstruction of Socialism, 1953-1958"
- Toby Abse: "Togliatti and the PCI in 1956"
- Susan Williams: "The end of exile: Seretse Khama's return to Bechuanaland in 1956"
- Terry Brotherstone: "The 1956-57 Crisis in the Communist Party of Great Britain and Communism: analysing participant and witness evidence from the standpoint of 2006."
- Alan Woodward: "Hungarian Uprising 1956 - the libertarian response in Britain"
- Neil Davidson: "Alisdair MacIntyre as a Marxist 1953-1968"
- Paul Blackledge: "Morality and Revolution: Ethical Debates in the British New Left"
- Christian Hogsbjerg: "Beyond the boundaries of Leninism? CLR James and 1956"