TY - GEN T1 - One day that shook the Communist world : the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy A1 - Lendvai, Paul, 1929- LA - English LA - German PP - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2008 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn705945738 AB - 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 pr. OP - 297 CN - DB957 .L41213 2008eb SN - 9781400837649 SN - 1400837642 SN - 1282964771 SN - 9781282964778 SN - 9786612964770 SN - 6612964774 SN - 9780691132822 SN - 0691132828 KW - Hungary : History : Revolution, 1956. KW - Hongrie : Histoire : 1956 (Révolution) KW - HISTORY. KW - HISTORY : Modern : 20th Century. KW - Hungary KW - 1956 KW - History ER -