One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy by Paul Lendvai

One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy

Paul Lendvai

297 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced

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On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. Only now, fifty years after those harrowing events, can the full story be t...

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