One day that shook the Communist world : the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy

One day that shook the Communist world : the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy / Paul Lendvai ; translated by Ann Major.

On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. Only now, fifty years after those harrowing events, can the full story be told. This book is a powerful eyewitness account and a...

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Main Author: Lendvai, Paul, 1929- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
1956
HISTORY.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Hungary > History > Revolution, 1956.
Hungary
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Ungarnaufstand 1956.
Table of Contents:
  • A day that shook the Communist world
  • The road to revolution
  • A night of cataclysmic decisions
  • The legend of the corvinists
  • Wrestling for the soul of Imre Nagy
  • Deadlocked
  • A turnaround with a question mark
  • The general, the colonel, and the adjutant
  • The dams are breaking
  • The condottiere, the "Uncle," and the romantics
  • Decision in the Kremlin: the end of patience
  • Double dive into darkness
  • The puppeteers and the Kádár Enigma
  • Operation whirlwind and Kádár phantom government
  • The Yugoslav-Soviet conspiracy
  • The second revolution
  • The moral bankruptcy of the U.S. liberation theory
  • Worldwide reactions
  • The barbarous vendetta of the victors
  • 1956-1989: victory in defeat?

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