Opening Remarks by Fernando Orlandi

Session 1: The XXth Congress of the CPSU and the Secret Speech
Chair: Victor Zaslavsky
Emilio Rizzo – Innovations of the XXth Congress
Adriano Guerra – The History of the Secret Speech
Fabio Bettanin – The Khrushchev Factor
Il’ya Levin – The XXth Party Congress pokolenie

Session 2: The Consequences on the Communist World
Chair: Paolo Calzini
Joze Pirjevec – Yugoslavia after the XXth Congress
Fernando Orlandi – The Seeds of the Schism and the Hundred Flowers
Floarea Virban – Friendly Foe: The Deceitful Policy of the Romanian Government
Magda Martini – DDR: The Failed Destalinization
Francesco Caccamo – Awaiting the Thaw. Czechoslovakia in 1956

Session 3: Poland from Spring to October
Chair: Luigi Vittorio Ferraris
Beata Plonka – The Polish Spring
Carla Tonini – The Workers’ Protest in Poznan: Prelude to Solidarnosc
Miroslav Skórka – Poland in 1956. The First Breach in the System
Marek Waldenberg – Moscow and Gomulka’s Return to Power

Session 4: The Hungarian Revolution
Chair: Antonio Carioti
Federigo Argentieri – Socialdemocracy and Communism in 1956
József Pankovits – Socio-political Aspects of the Hungarian Revolution and its International Context
Tat’yana Zonova – Moscow, Budapest and the Cold War
Stefano Bottoni –. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution through the Snagov’s notes by Imre Nagy

Session 5: Telling the 1956
Chair: Giovanni Bensi
Luigi Marinelli – “A Cigarette Behind the Ear and not a Drop of Hope in the Heart”. The 1956 and the Polish Literature
Cinzia Franchi – Hungarian Intellectuals in 1956 Revolution
Gian Piero Piretto – Not by Corn Cobs Alone: Popular Culture and Literature in 1956 Soviet Union

Session 6: The Consequences in Italy
Chair: Carlo Tognoli
Giovanni Scirocco – The “Bourgeois” Press and the Hungarian Revolution
Simona Colarizi – The PSI and the Socialist International
Gloria Gabrielli – The PSI, the USA and the crisis of 1956
Carlo Spagnolo – Togliatti and the PCI in 1956
Salvatore Sechi – The PCI and the US during the 1956 crisis