By Csaba Bekes, Janos M. Rainer, Malcolm Byrne
If there have been all-news tv channels in 1956, audience world wide could were glued to their units among October 23 and November four. This booklet tells the tale of the Hungarian Revolution in one hundred twenty unique records, starting from the mins of the 1st assembly of Khrushchev with Hungarian bosses after Stalin's dying in 1953 to Yeltsin's announcement made in 1992. different files contain letters from Yuri Andropov, Soviet Ambassador in Budapest in the course of and after the riot. the nice majority of the cloth seems to be in English for the 1st time, and just about all come from records that have been inaccessible till the Nineteen Nineties.
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Many of the documents included here were first compiled for use at an unusual conference held in Budapest in September 1996. On the revolution's 40th anniversary, scholars from Hungary, Russia, the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Israel, Italy, Poland, and Romania joined veterans of the events themselves to recollect and reassess what had happened. Among the veterans were Gyula Borbandi, William Griffith, Miklos Molnar, Miklos Vasarhelyi, and Maria Wittner. The scholars included some of the best known specialists on Hungary and on the Cold War in Eastern Europe.
October 20: The central party daily, Szabad N^p ("Free People"), carries an article by Imre Nagy that is unusual in that it makes clear that the party leadership is engaged in serious in-fighting, and offers the first analysis of the reasons for the conflict. October 23-24: The founding congress of the Patriotic People's Front elects the writer Pal Szabo as president and the Reformed Church minister Ferenc J&iosi as general secretary. Imre Nagy's speech on national unity later leads to charges of nationalism against him.
Rebel forces make considerable inroads despite the number of casualties. October 26: Various national and workers' councils spring up in cities such as Gyor, Debrecen, Veszprem and Nyiregyhaza. October 26: In the afternoon, rebels occupy the Csepel police headquarters in Budapest (21st District). : Hungarian radio broadcasts a statement by the HWP Central Committee promising a new, national government, Hungarian-Soviet negotiations conducted on an equal basis, elections for factory workers' councils, pay raises, and economic and political changes.