A workshop titled "Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism" was organised by the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and the Centre for Contemporary History (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung), Potsdam, in Budapest, in the Institute of History in June 20–22, 2013. The website of the international research project – in which some researchers (Apor Péter, Stefano Bottoni) of our Institute also take part – can be found here. The program of the conference can be seen here.