Challenging communism in Eastern Europe : 1956 and its legacy
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Challenging communism in Eastern Europe : 1956 and its legacy
（Routledge Europe-Asia studies series）
Routledge, 2008
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Marking the 50th anniversary of events in 1956, that were a major turning point in the history of communist-ruled Eastern Europe, this book contains a selection of some of the most recent research on those momentous events and their memory and legacy. The book contains edited contributions from historians and social scientists from Hungary, Poland the UK and the USA. Their contributions are the fruit of research which has only been possible since 1989. In the years since the fall of the communist regimes the state archives have been opened to researchers and it has been possible to collect the testimony of eye-witnesses without fear of repression and censorship. The outcome of 1956 led to Poland embarking on its own distinctive version of communist rule. Meanwhile 1956 in Hungary saw the first society-wide attempt to overthrow a ruling communist regime - only to be put down by Soviet military intervention. In both countries the events of 1956 had lasting repercussions for society and its relationship with the communist regime. In retrospect they can be seen as paving the way for the eventual fall of the communist regimes in East Central Europe in 1989.
Table of Contents
1. 1956: The Mid-20th Century Seen from the Vantage Point of the Beginning of the Next Century 2. Memory and Discourse on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution 3. Antifascism, the 1956 Revolution and the Politics of the Communist Autobiographies in Hungary 1944-2000 4. An Emblematic Picture of the Hungarian 1956 Revolution: Photojournalism during the Hungarian Revolution 5. Dethroning Stalin: Poland 1956 and its Legacy 6. The Polish-Soviet Confrontation in 1956 and the Attempted Soviet Military Intervention in Poland 7. The Main Provincial Centres of the 1956 Revolution: Gyor and Miskolc 8. Re-Emergence of Public Opinion in the Soviet Union: Khrushchev and Responses to the Secret Speech 9. The Fog of Hungary's Negotiated Revolution
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