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| Title: | Explosion
: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 |
| Author: | John P C Matthews |
| ISBN: | 0781811740 : 9780781811743 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 691 |
| Weight: | 1.31 Kg. |
| Published: | Hippocrene Books - December 2007 |
| List Price: | 24.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Hungary: Revolutions & coups: European history: postwar; from c1945- |
In late October, 50 years ago, the world witnessed one of the largest leaderless spontaneous revolutions. Triggered by a confluence of fateful events, Hungarian students led hundreds of thousands of their countrymen in an open revolt against the Soviet-sponsored government. Matthews, a journalist at Radio Free Europe, realised he had a ringside seat and saved every scrap of news. Here, at long last, from those journalist reports and memoirs, he recreates a picture of what it was like to live through that exhilirating time.
Demonstrations; Hungary, It Origins & History; Hungary Under Communism; Explosion; Revolution; Revolution Triumphant (Part I); Revolution Triumphant (Part II); The Second Intervention; The Revolution Goes On; Suppression; Accepting the Suppression (East & West); Re-emergence; Significance of the Revolution -- Then and Today; Index.
