1956 mint menekültválság. Új olvasatok egy ismert történethez

This thematic issue addresses the 1956 Hungarian revolution from the viewpoint of the humanitarian challenge the fl ight from Hungary of almost 200.000 civilians prompted in November-December 1956. The eight articles pledge to answer two fundamental and entangled questions: how did the Western world – and Titoist Yugoslavia – react to the refugee crisis, and which strategies of social and individual integration were elaborated by the Hungarians who had fl ed the country after the Soviet intervention? James P. Niessen, Gusztáv D. Kecskés, and András Nagy explore the global implications of the Hungarian refugee issue, which after approving to the United Nations became for years a matter of diplomatic battle between the two blocs. Nóra Deák, Tiphaine Robert, and Attila Kovács analyse the handling of the Hungarian refugees in three countries with a diff erent institutional background: the United States, neutral and Western-allied Switzerland, and neutral but socialist Yugoslavia. In the last section, through the use of mostly narrative sources the articles of András Lénárt and Balázs Balogh explain how young refugees integrated into respectively the Austrian and the American society, without giving up their primary Hungarian identity. These contributions aim to provide the reader of a better understanding of the 1956 Hungarian refugee crisis in global historical perspective.