Lendvai, Paul, 1929-

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?

9780691132822 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691132828 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2007026864

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014524548 Uk


Hungary--History--Revolution, 1956.
Hungría--Historia--Revolución,1956

321 DB 957 / L564o 2008

943.905/2