The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents
- ISBN-10
- 9639241660
- ISBN-13
- 9789639241664
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 668
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-01-01
- Publisher
- Central European University Press
- Authors
- Malcolm Byrne, Csaba B‚k‚s, M. J nos Rainer
Description
This volume presents the story of the Hungarian Revolution in 120 original documents, ranging from the minutes of Khrushchev's first meeting with Hungarian leaders after Stalin's death in 1953, to Yeltsin's declaration on Hungary in 1992. The great majority of the material comes from archives that were inaccessible until the 1990s, and appears here in English for the first time. Book jacket.
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