One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its LegacyPrinceton University Press, 2008 M03 23 - 297 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
The Road to Revolution | 25 |
A Night of Cataclysmic Decisions | 45 |
The Legend of the Corvinists | 55 |
Wrestling for the Soul of Imre Nagy | 67 |
Deadlocked | 75 |
A Turnaround with a Question Mark | 83 |
The General the Colonel and the Adjutant | 89 |
The End of Patience | 119 |
Double Dive into Darkness | 127 |
The Puppeteers and the Kádár Enigma | 139 |
Operation Whirlwind and Kádárs Phantom Government | 149 |
The YugoslavSoviet Conspiracy | 163 |
The Second Revolution | 173 |
The Moral Bankruptcy of the U S Liberation Theory | 185 |
Worldwide Reactions | 195 |
The Dams Are Breaking | 101 |
The Condottiere the Uncle and the Romantics | 109 |
The Barbarous Vendetta of the Victors | 211 |