Book contents
- Before the Uprising
- Before the Uprising
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Political System
- 2 Social and Economic Transformation
- 3 Terror
- 4 Communists Killing One Another
- 5 Education and Culture
- 6 Hungary and the Death of Stalin
- 7 The New Course
- 8 Counter-reforms
- 9 The Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 10 The Summer of 1956
- 11 Revolution in the Air
- 12 Twelve Days of Freedom
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
12 - Twelve Days of Freedom
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2022
- Before the Uprising
- Before the Uprising
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Political System
- 2 Social and Economic Transformation
- 3 Terror
- 4 Communists Killing One Another
- 5 Education and Culture
- 6 Hungary and the Death of Stalin
- 7 The New Course
- 8 Counter-reforms
- 9 The Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 10 The Summer of 1956
- 11 Revolution in the Air
- 12 Twelve Days of Freedom
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
It is hard to reconstruct the short history of the Revolution, which was an unorganized and spontaneous affair. The revolutionaries represented a wide variety of points of view, but what held them together, at least temporarily, was their hostility to the old regime. In all probability the national consensus would not have long survived victory. The revolution, like all great revolutions, was amorphous and its history lends itself to different interpretations. It is this aspect of 1956 that enables diametrically opposed political groupings to claim its heritage at the present time.
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- Before the UprisingHungary under Communism, 1949–1956, pp. 251 - 257Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022