Abstract:
The study presents the activity of the Galilei Circle duringt the First World War. The circle was a student association created in 1908. It was a radical left answer to the National Christian provocations in the framework of the Kulturkampf in the Hungarian universities. During the Great War the circle organized antimilitarist demonstrations, the activists took conferences. In March 1919 the Galilei Circl ceased to existe as organisation, but the activists took part in the short lived Hungarian Soviet Republic.
