One day that shook the Communist world : the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy /
Paul Lendvai ; translated by Ann Major.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
- 297 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-284) and index.
A day that shook the Communist world -- The road to revolution -- A night of cataclysmic decisions -- The legend of the corvinists -- Wrestling for the soul of Imre Nagy -- Deadlocked -- A turnaround with a question mark -- The general, the colonel, and the adjutant -- The dams are breaking -- The condottiere, the "Uncle," and the romantics -- Decision in the Kremlin: the end of patience -- Double dive into darkness -- The puppeteers and the Kadar Enigma -- Operation whirlwind and Kadar phantom government -- The Yugoslav-Soviet conspiracy -- The second revolution -- The moral bankruptcy of the U.S. liberation theory -- Worldwide reactions -- The barbarous vendetta of the victors -- 1956-1989: victory in defeat?