Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject History of Germany - Postwar Period, Cold War, grade: A, Central European University Budapest (Departmemt of Political Science), course: Political Change, language: English, abstract: This essay compares the revolutionary character of two anti-Stalinist uprisings in the communist bloc. Based on different social theories of revolution it closely compares the cases Berlin 1953 and Budapest 1956 - the former being a worker's rising, the latter a broader national, anti-Soviet revolution.