One day that shook the communist world : the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy

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One day that shook the communist world : the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy

Paul Lendvai ; translated by Ann Major

Princeton University Press, c2008

  • : hbk

タイトル別名

Ungarnaufstand 1956

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"First published under the title Der Ungarnaufstand 1956. Die revolution und ihre Folgen 2006 by C. Bertelsmann Verlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Mnchen, Germany."

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 World is the best account of these unprecedented events.

目次

Introduction 1 Chapter 1: A Day That Shook the Communist World 5 Chapter 2: The Road to Revolution 25 Chapter 3: A Night of Cataclysmic Decisions 45 Chapter 4: The Legend of the Corvinists 55 Chapter 5: Wrestling for the Soul of Imre Nagy 67 Chapter 6: Deadlocked 75 Chapter 7: A Turnaround with a Question Mark 83 Chapter 8: The General, the Colonel, and the Adjutant 89 Chapter 9: The Dams Are Breaking 101 Chapter 10: The Condottiere, the "Uncle," and the Romantics 109 Chapter 11: Decision in the Kremlin: The End of Patience 119 Chapter 12: Double Dive into Darkness 127 Chapter 13: The Puppeteers and the Kadar Enigma 139 Chapter 14: Operation Whirlwind and Kadar's Phantom Government 149 Chapter 15: The Yugoslav-Soviet Conspiracy 163 Chapter 16: The Second Revolution 173 Chapter 17: The Moral Bankruptcy of the U.S. Liberation Theory 185 Chapter 18: Worldwide Reactions 195 Chapter 19: The Barbarous Vendetta of the Victors 211 Chapter 20: 1956-1989: Victory in Defeat? 225 Epilogue: Whose 1956? 241 Acknowledgments 247 Chronology 249 Notes 255 Bibliography 279 Index 285

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  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA8656040X
  • ISBN
    • 9780691132822
  • LCCN
    2007026864
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    ger
  • 出版地
    Princeton
  • ページ数/冊数
    297 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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