One day that shook the communist world

Titel: One day that shook the communist world : the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy / Paul Lendvai
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Veröffentlicht: Princeton [u.a.] : Princeton University Press, 2008
Umfang: 297 S., [4] Bl. : Ill., Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 0691132828 ; 9780691132822
Lokale Klassifikation: 54 7 Od ; 54 7 O ; 54 7 Ra
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 1
  • A Day That Shook the Communist World
  • p. 5
  • 2
  • The Road to Revolution
  • p. 25
  • 3
  • A Night of Cataclysmic Decisions
  • p. 45
  • 4
  • The Legend of the Corvinists
  • p. 55
  • 5
  • Wrestling for the Soul of Imre Nagy
  • p. 67
  • 6
  • Deadlocked
  • p. 75
  • 7
  • A Turnaround with a Question Mark
  • p. 83
  • 8
  • The General, the Colonel, and the Adjutant
  • p. 89
  • 9
  • The Dams Are Breaking
  • p. 101
  • 10
  • The Condottiere, the "Uncle," and the Romantics
  • p. 109
  • 11
  • Decision in the Kremlin: The End of Patience
  • p. 119
  • 12
  • Double Dive into Darkness
  • p. 127
  • 13
  • The Puppeteers and the Kadar Enigma
  • p. 139
  • 14
  • Operation Whirlwind and Kadar's Phantom Government
  • p. 149
  • 15
  • The Yugoslav-Soviet Conspiracy
  • p. 163
  • 16
  • The Second Revolution
  • p. 173
  • 17
  • The Moral Bankruptcy of the U.S. Liberation Theory
  • p. 185
  • 18
  • Worldwide Reactions
  • p. 195
  • 19
  • The Barbarous Vendetta of the Victors
  • p. 211
  • 20
  • 1956-1989: Victory in Defeat?
  • p. 225
  • Epilogue: Whose 1956?
  • p. 241
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. 247
  • Chronology
  • p. 249
  • Notes
  • p. 255
  • Bibliography
  • p. 279
  • Index
  • p. 285