ABSTRACT
Students in Japan began organizing local groups after World War II in an effort to secure affordable food and materials for others who were struggling to survive in the wake of the nation’s surrender. Students in Budapest drafted a set of demands that included free general elections, numerous social and economic reforms, freedom of speech, and a complete Soviet military withdrawal; in October 1956, thousands of students gathered to endorse the demands and plan a protest march. One tank battalion sent to secure the central military barracks for the Soviet-backed government promptly defected to the opposition. In 1940 the All India Students’ Federation separated into two groups: communists and socialists, who with the Gandhians were actively working for the Indian nationalist cause and opposed British imperialism. By the 1960s, students all over the world were again organizing on a massive scale, and within a decade student resistance would erupt in unprecedented ways.
