| Description |
1 online resource (297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| 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? |
| Summary |
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 gripping history of the uprising in Hungary that heralded the future liberation of Eastern Europe. Paul Lendvai was a young journalist covering politics in Hungary when the uprising broke out. He knew the government officials and revolutionaries involved. He was on the front lines of the student pr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-284) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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| SUBJECT |
Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063068
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| Subject |
Hungary
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400837649 |
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1400837642 |
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1282964771 |
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9781282964778 |
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9786612964770 |
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6612964774 |
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