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One Day That Shook the Communist World
2010,2008
Overview
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 protests and the bloody street fights and he saw the revolutionary government smashed by the Red Army. In this riveting, deeply personal, and often irreverent book, Lendvai weaves his own experiences with in-depth reportage to unravel the complex chain of events leading up to and including the uprising, its brutal suppression, and its far-reaching political repercussions in Hungary and neighboring Eastern Bloc countries. He draws upon exclusive interviews with Russian and former KGB officials, survivors of the Soviet backlash, and relatives of those executed. He reveals new evidence from closed tribunals and documents kept secret in Soviet and Hungarian archives. Lendvai's breathtaking narrative shows how the uprising, while tragic, delivered a stunning blow to Communism that helped to ultimately bring about its demise.
One Day That Shook the Communist Worldis the best account of these unprecedented events.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Subject
/ Arson
/ Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
/ Communist Party of the Soviet Union
/ Dictator
/ Dissolution of the Soviet Union
/ Europe
/ General history of Europe Central Europe Germany
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary
/ HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General
/ Hungarian Revolution of 1956
/ Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
/ Hungary
/ Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1956
/ Leninism
/ Lynching
/ On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
/ Red Army
/ Reprisal
/ Titoism
/ Unrest
/ War
ISBN
9781400837649, 1400837642, 0691132828, 9780691132822
