One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy

by Paul Lendvai

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691132828

ISBN13:9780691132822

Release Date:March 2008

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Related Subjects

Austria Central Europe History Hungary Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Revolutionary World

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