Simon Attila et al.: Revolúcia v susedstve. Maďaraská revolúcia v roku 1956 a Slovensko (Somorja-Pozsony, 2017)
XII. Summary
[ XII. ] Summary Revolution in the Neighborhood. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and Slovakia The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 is minimally present not only in the Slovak historical memory and in school history education, but even in historiography. For the latter, 1956 only seems interesting through the prism of the 1968 events in Czechoslovakia, but as if it did not want to recognize what an important role the Hungarian Revolution had played and continues to play in the anti-communist struggle and traditions of the region. It clearly shows the debt of the Czech and Slovak historiography dealing only randomly with the correlation between 1956 and (Czecho)Slovakia in the first and a half decade after the 1989 transition to democracy. An exception to this were military historians who put the issue on the agenda immediately after the change of the regime. In 1993 they held a conference in Prague on Czechoslovakia's military measures connected with the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the participants of which came from all the three involved countries. The scientific exploration of how the Czechoslovak state party—and Czechoslovakia generally—reacted on the 1956 revolution started only in the period of its 50th anniversary. The results of the research initiated by the Forum Minority Research Institute and released in a Slovak-Hungarian bilingual conference volume (Ivaničková, Edita - Simon Attila (ed.): Maďarská revolúcia roku 1956 a Slovensko. Az 1956-os magyar forradalom és Szlovákia) has in many respects expanded our knowledge on the subject. In the result of research work undertaken in the last twenty years and mainly to that conducted in connection with the 2006 anniversary of the revolution and subsequently, in a number of issues we see relatively clearly. The purpose of this publication is to show the achieved progress. The first study of this volume, the author of which is Attila Simon, and which can also be interpreted as a foreword to the topic, offers an insight into the current interpretations of 1956. It makes a special reference to the question what the 1956 Revolution meant for the Hungarian minority living in
