The Hungarian-Soviet Society (A.K.A. Hungarian-Soviet Cultural Society) was founded in 1945 to foster increased Soviet culture with Hungary. Pragmatically, it served as a mass organization (with about 1.5 million members by the 1950s) to heighten the Soviet Union's influence within the Hungarian People's Republic. The Society published its own newspaper and it distributed literature and propaganda relevant to its cause. While it disbanded after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, it was reconstituted in subsequent years and remained a social-political group until 1989.