Download or read book Hungarian Freedom Fighters Of 56 written by Brian Narelle and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic novel about the revolution that began in Budapest, Hungary October 22, 1956 and was put down by the Soviet Union in the first week of November.
Download or read book The 1956 Hungarian Revolution written by Christopher Adam and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on papers presented at the conference: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution 50 Years Later -- Canadian and International Perspectives, held at the University of Ottawa, Oct. 12-14, 2006.
Download or read book The 1956 Hungarian Revolution written by Csaba B‚k‚s and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hungary 56 written by Andy B.. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book B tors g a Szabads g rt the Courage for Freedom written by Metroplex Magyar Cultural Circle and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a series of memoirs of Hungarian Freedom Fighters, who resided or still live in Texas. The Metroplex Magyar Cultural Circle (MMCC) collected and published them as a tribute to our local heroes. When the uprising was crushed, they had to flee from their beloved homeland to escape persecution. In some cases, they faced certain death by returning Soviet backed communist Hungarian government. The memoirs of other individuals, are also included in this book, who were considered enemy of the regime because of their worldviews or religious convictions, and had to endure harassment and incarceration, therefore felt like they had to leave while they could. Others were children, who could not understand why they had to hastily leave their relatives, friends, pets and toys behind. But they all remember the journey. As they recalled, and relived some of those moments, they were all taken over by the emotions. Their short or lengthy stories are testaments to their Courage for Freedom. At the end they all made it to America, where they found a new home, where they were welcomed and could live in peace and prosper. They are grateful for that to the America and its people. E könyv azoknak az 56-os magyar forradalmároknak az emlékeit tartalmazza, akik valamikor vagy most is Texasban élnek. Emlékeiket a Metroplex Magyar Cultural Circle (MMCC) gyujtötte össze, dolgozta fel, hogy kiadásával a helyi hoseiknek nyújtson méltó elismerést. A forradalom letörése után ezeknek a Szabadságharcosoknak el kellett menekülniük, hogy elkerüljék a Szovjet Unió által támogatott magyar kommunista kormánytól rájuk szabott (sok esetben halálos) büntetést. Ebbe a könyvbe olyan személyek menekülésének emlékeit is belefoglaltuk, akik politikai nézeteik vagy vallásos meggyozödésük miatt kormányellenes elemeknek voltak tekintve, és állandó zaklatást, illetve börtönbüntetést kellett elviselniük. Mások, mint gyermekek indultak neki a veszélyes útnak, akik nem tudták megérteni, hogy miert kell otthagyniuk a rokonokat, a és játékaikat, de a menekülés félelmetes emlékei hosszú éveken át kísérték oket. Érzelmeiktol felkavarva mesélték el, és újra élték azokat borzalmas napokat. Történeteik, akár röviden vagy hosszadalmasan, bátorságukról, hazájuk és a szabadság iránti szeretetükrol tanúskodik. Végül mind eljutottak Amerikába, egy olyan új hazába, ahol nyugodtan, békében élhettek, és mindannyian hálásak azért az amerikai népnek.
Download or read book Fifty six Stories written by Andrea Lauer Rice and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom 56 written by Scarlett Deva Antalóczy and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FREEDOM '56 commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution with more than one hundred true stories, anecdotes and poems from survivors from all walks of life or life worldwide.
Download or read book Toward Morning written by Alta Halverson Seymour and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 written by Béla K. Király and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twelve Days written by Victor Sebestyen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon) The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story of extraordinary bravery in a fight for freedom, and of ruthless cruelty in suppressing a popular dream. A small nation, its people armed with a few rifles and petrol bombs, had the will and courage to rise up against one of the world's superpowers. The determination of the Hungarians to resist the Russians astonished the West. People of all kinds, throughout the free world, became involved in the cause. For 12 days it looked, miraculously, as though the Soviets might be humbled. Then reality hit back. The Hungarians were brutally crushed. Their capital was devastated, thousands of people were killed and their country was occupied for a further three decades. The uprising was the defining moment of the Cold War: the USSR showed that it was determined to hold on to its European empire, but it would never do so without resistance. From the Prague Spring to Lech Walesa's Solidarity and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the tighter the grip of the communist bloc, the more irresistible the popular demand for freedom.
Download or read book A Bibliography of the Hungarian Revolution 1956 written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1963-12-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography is an exhaustive, objective and unique list of sources in the study of an event the historical significance of which becomes continually more apparent. The list consists of over two thousand entries from books and pamphlets, periodical articles, motion pictures and monitored broadcasts. The articles are arranged by language, and the Hungarian and Slavic book entries are provided with English translations.
Download or read book Failed Illusions written by Charles Gati and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting new look at a key event of the Cold War, Failed Illusions fundamentally modifies our picture of what happened during the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Now, fifty years later, Charles Gati challenges the simplicity of this David and Goliath story in his new history of the revolt.
Download or read book Journey to a Revolution written by Michael Korda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was not just an extraordinary and dramatic event—perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War—but, as we can now see fifty years later, a major turning point in history. Here is an eyewitness account, in the tradition of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. The spontaneous rising of Hungarian people against the Hungarian communist party and the Soviet forces in Hungary in the wake of Stalin's death, while ending unsuccessfully, demonstrated to the world at large the failure of Communism. The Russians were obliged to use force on a vast scale against armed students, factory workers, and intellectuals in the streets of a major European capital to restore the Hungarian communist party to power. For two weeks, students, women, and teenagers fought tanks in the streets of Budapest, in full view of the Western media—and therefore the world—and for a time they actually won, deeply humiliating the men who succeeded Stalin. The Russians eventually managed to extinguish the revolution with brute force and overwhelming numbers, but never again would they attempt to use military force on a large scale to suppress dissent in their Eastern European empire. Told with brilliant detail, suspense, occasional humor, and sustained anger, Journey to a Revolution is at once history and a compelling memoir—the amazing story of four young Oxford undergraduates, including the author, who took off for Budapest in a beat-up old Volkswagen convertible in October 1956 to bring badly needed medicine to Budapest hospitals and to participate, at street level, in one of the great battles of postwar history. Michael Korda paints a vivid and richly detailed picture of the events and the people; explores such major issues as the extent to which the British and American intelligence services were involved in the uprising, making the Hungarians feel they could expect military support from the West; and describes, day by day, the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings to the sad martyrdom of its end. Journey to a Revolution delivers "a harrowing and horrifying tale told in spare and poignant prose—sometimes bitter, sometimes ironic, always powerful."* * Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Download or read book Memories of 56 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Post Communist Mafia State written by B lint Magyar and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ?organized over-world?, the ?state employing mafia methods? and the ?adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. ÿ
Download or read book Iron Curtain written by Anne Applebaum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of Iron Curtain.
Download or read book Past in the Making written by Michal Kopecek and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical revisionism, far from being restricted to small groups of ‘negationists,’ has galvanized debates in the realm of recent history. The studies in this book range from general accounts of the background of recent historical revisionism to focused analyses of particular debates or social-cultural phenomena in individual Central European countries, from Germany to Ukraine and Estonia. Where is the borderline between legitimate re-examination of historical interpretations and attempts to rewrite history in a politically motivated way that downgrades or denies essential historical facts? How do the traditional ‘national historical narratives’ react to the ‘spill-over’ of international and political controversies into their ‘sphere of influence’? Technological progress, along with the overall social and cultural decentralization shatters the old hierarchies of academic historical knowledge under the banner of culture of memory, and breeds an unequalled democratization in historical representation. This book offers a unique approach based on the provocative and instigating intersection of scholarly research, its political appropriations, and social reflection from a representative sample of Central and East European countries.
