Hungarian Crisis - Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
The Hungarian uprising –dubbed a counter-revolution in Soviet accounts but widely regarded elsewhere and in Hungary as a revolution — constituted the greatest crisis within the Soviet bloc before the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.
Kadar on a National-Communist Party
Hungarian Communist writers, journalists, university students, the youth of the Petofi Circle, thousands and thousands of workers and peasants, and veteran fighters who had been imprisoned on false charges fought in the front line against …
Soviet Statement On Hungary – Seventeen Moments in Soviet …
The defense of socialist achievements by the people’s democracy of Hungary is at the present moment the chief and sacred duty of workers, peasants, and intelligentsia, and of all the Hungarian working people.
Kadar Appeals to the Hungarian People - Seventeen Moments in …
The Hungarian Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government, in the interest of our people, working class, and country, requested the command of the Soviet Army to help our nation in smashing the sinister forces of reaction and restoring order and calm in the country …
Hungarian Crisis Images - Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
Hungarian Crisis; International Youth Festival; Khrushchev’s Secret Speech; The Kyshtym Explosion; Labor Reforms; Launch of Sputnik; Literary Life at a Crossroads; The Palace of Sport; Repealing the Ban on Abortion; War Films; 1961. Anti-Parasite Law; Bratsk; Bulat Okudzhava; Corn Campaign;
Formation and Program of a New Government
The Hungarian Government has come to an agreement with the Soviet Government that the Soviet forces shall withdraw immediately from Budapest and that simultaneously with the formation of our new Army they shall evacuate the city’s territory.
In Budapest (1956) – Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
In Budapest (1956) Description: October 25, 1956. Demonstration on the streets of Budapest. A car drives by with rebels. Rebels near the American Embassy; attacking the Petefi Political School; tearing down the sign for Lenin Street; knocking over the Statue of Freedom.
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech - Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
The Hungarian uprising, which occurred simultaneously with the Anglo-French intervention against Egypt over its claims to the Suez Canal, was the most serious crisis in the Soviet bloc until the Prague Spring of 1968.
The Workers’ Council Movement - Seventeen Moments in Soviet …
October 27, 1956. Original Source: Broadcast by Radio Kossuth. The Trade Union Council Presidium recommends that workers and employees embark on the introduction of worker management in factories, workshops, mines and everywhere else.
Communist Resistance to Kadar - Seventeen Moments in Soviet …
We send them the message that we consider them all traitors to Communism … Kadar’s crime and that of his accomplices is clear and the sentence has already been pronounced. We Hungarian Communists will see to it that the sentence is carried out … Source: M. J. Lasky, ed., The Hungarian Revolution: a White Book (New York: Praeger, 1957), p ...