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Book Description: Routledge, 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 193 pages. 9.50x6.75x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0415449286

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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2008. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 9.685 by 6.85 inches. (224 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. Marking the 50 th anniversary of events in 1956, that were a major turning point in the history of communist-rued Eastern Europe, this book contains a seection of some of the most recent research on those momentous events and their memory and egacy. The book contains edited contributions from historians and socia scientists from Hungary, Poand the UK and the USA. Their contributions are the fruit of research which has ony been possibe since 1989. In the years since the fa of the communist regimes the state archives have been opened to researchers and it has been possibe to coect the testimony of eye-witnesses without fear of repression and censorship. The outcome of 1956 ed to Poand embarking on its own distinctive version of communist rue. Meanwhie 1956 in Hungary saw the first society-wide attempt to overthrow a ruing communist regime ? ony to be put down by Soviet miitary intervention. In both countries the events of 1956 had asting repercussions for society and its reationship with the communist regime. In retrospect they can be seen as paving the way for the eventua fa of the communist regimes in East Centra Europe in 1989. 1. 1956: The Mid-20th Century Seen from the Vantage Point of the Beginning of the Next Century 2. Memory and Discourse on the 1956 Hungarian Revoution 3. Antifascism, the 1956 Revoution and the Poitics of the Communist Autobiographies in Hungary 1944?2000 4. An Embematic Picture of the Hungarian 1956 Revoution: Photojournaism during the Hungarian Revoution 5. Dethroning Stain: Poand 1956 and its Legacy 6. The Poish-Soviet Confrontation in 1956 and the Attempted Soviet Miitary Intervention in Poand 7. The Main Provincia Centres of the 1956 Revoution: Gyor and Miskoc 8. Re-Emergence of Pubic Opinion in the Soviet Union: Khrushchev and Responses to the Secret Speech 9. The Fog of Hungary?s Negotiated Revoution ' Chaenging Communism in Eastern Europe can be recommended to a those interested in the questions of memory and history, communism and 20th century Eastern Europe.' - Lászó Borhi, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hardback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415449286

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