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Based on papers presented at the conference: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution 50 Years Later -- Canadian and International Perspectives, held at the University of Ottawa, Oct. 12-14, 2006.
Author : Christopher Adam
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0776607057
Based on papers presented at the conference: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution 50 Years Later -- Canadian and International Perspectives, held at the University of Ottawa, Oct. 12-14, 2006.
Author : Andrew C. Janos
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520326180
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
Author : Csaba B‚k‚s
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789639241664
This volume presents the story of the Hungarian Revolution in 120 original documents, ranging from the minutes of Khrushchev's first meeting with Hungarian leaders after Stalin's death in 1953, to Yeltsin's declaration on Hungary in 1992. The great majority of the material comes from archives that were inaccessible until the 1990s, and appears here in English for the first time. Book jacket.
Author : Francis S. Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Author : Charles Gati
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
A riveting new look at a key event of the Cold War, Failed Illusions fundamentally modifies our picture of what happened during the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Now, fifty years later, Charles Gati challenges the simplicity of this David and Goliath story in his new history of the revolt.
Author : Andrea Lauer Rice
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Hungary
ISBN : 9789639593428
Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2006-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060772611
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was not just an extraordinary and dramatic event—perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War—but, as we can now see fifty years later, a major turning point in history. Here is an eyewitness account, in the tradition of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. The spontaneous rising of Hungarian people against the Hungarian communist party and the Soviet forces in Hungary in the wake of Stalin's death, while ending unsuccessfully, demonstrated to the world at large the failure of Communism. The Russians were obliged to use force on a vast scale against armed students, factory workers, and intellectuals in the streets of a major European capital to restore the Hungarian communist party to power. For two weeks, students, women, and teenagers fought tanks in the streets of Budapest, in full view of the Western media—and therefore the world—and for a time they actually won, deeply humiliating the men who succeeded Stalin. The Russians eventually managed to extinguish the revolution with brute force and overwhelming numbers, but never again would they attempt to use military force on a large scale to suppress dissent in their Eastern European empire. Told with brilliant detail, suspense, occasional humor, and sustained anger, Journey to a Revolution is at once history and a compelling memoir—the amazing story of four young Oxford undergraduates, including the author, who took off for Budapest in a beat-up old Volkswagen convertible in October 1956 to bring badly needed medicine to Budapest hospitals and to participate, at street level, in one of the great battles of postwar history. Michael Korda paints a vivid and richly detailed picture of the events and the people; explores such major issues as the extent to which the British and American intelligence services were involved in the uprising, making the Hungarians feel they could expect military support from the West; and describes, day by day, the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings to the sad martyrdom of its end. Journey to a Revolution delivers "a harrowing and horrifying tale told in spare and poignant prose—sometimes bitter, sometimes ironic, always powerful."* * Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Author : Csaba Békés
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1469667495
In this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Unlike many studies of the global Cold War that focus on East-West relationships—often from the vantage point of the West—Bekes grounds his work in the East, drawing on little-used, non-English sources. As such, he offers a new and sweeping Cold War narrative using Hungary as a case study, demonstrating that the East-Central European states have played a much more important role in shaping both the Soviet bloc's overall policy and the East-West relationship than previously assumed. Similarly, he shows how the relationship between Moscow and its allies, as well as among the bloc countries, was much more complex than it appeared to most observers in the East and the West alike.
Author : Tamás Aczél
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Hungary
ISBN :
Author : F. S. Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
ISBN :