Volume 43, Number 18 · November 14, 1996
Hungary's Revolution: Forty Years On
By Timothy Garton Ash
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Reform, Revolt and Repression, 1953-1963 H. Legers.
edited by György Litván. English version edited and translated by János M. Bak and Lyman
Longman, 272 pp., $19.31 (paper)
Hungary's Negotiated Revolution: Economic Reform, Social Change, and Political Succession, 1957-1990
by Rudolf L. Tokés
Cambridge University Press, 544 pp., $24.95 (paper)
What happened in Hungary in 1956? Here is a fairly typical brief Western summary, from the Columbia Encyclopedia:
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