The Hungarian revolution of 1956 : myths and realities /
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| Author / Creator: | Eörsi, László. |
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| Uniform title: | Mítoszok helyett. English |
| Imprint: | Boulder, Colo. : Social Science Monographs ; Wayne, N.J. : Center for Hungarian Studies and Publications ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2006. |
| Description: | xi, 207 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | CHSP Hungarian studies series ; no. 11 East European monographs ; no. 693 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6242109 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- The Siege of Budapest, 1956
- The Weakening of Communist Power: The Antecedents of the Revolution
- The Outbreak of the Revolution
- The Soviet Armed Forces in Hungary
- The Formation of Insurgent Groups
- Insurgents during the Ceasefire
- Armed Resistance after November 4
- The Principal Fighting Units
- The Insurgents at the Corvin Passage
- The Insurgents in the Ninth District
- The Insurgents in the Seventh District
- The Insurgents at Szena Square
- The Insurgents at Csepel
- The Insurgents at Pesterzsebet
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Jozsef Dudas as Revolutionary
- Political Background
- The Formation of the Hungarian National Revolutionary Committee and the Twenty-Five-Point Program
- Taking over the Offices of the Szabad Nep
- The Fuggetlenseg
- Dudas and the Revolutionary Committee of Intellectuals
- Talks with Imre Nagy
- Hungarian Independence
- The Armed Group in the Building of the Szabad Nep
- At the Conference of the Revolutionary Military Committee
- The Predicament of the Hungarian Revolutionary National Committee
- Foreign Journalists Call on Dudas
- Incident at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Running the Gauntlet on November 3
- Soviet Intervention
- Dudas under Arrest
- Captivity, Trial, Death
- Dudas Legends, and His Afterlife
- Notes
- Ilona Toth
- Political Resistance at the Hospital on Sandor Peterfy Street
- The Death of Istvan Kollar
- Ilona Toth and Fellow Defendants
- The Birth of Legends
- Factors that Cannot Be Reconstructed
- The Proofs
- The "Civic National Forces" and the Cult of Ilona Toth
- Notes
- Peter Mansfeld
- Childhood
- The "Gang of Terrorists"
- In Jail, under Investigation
- Jozsef Blaski and Company
- The "Civic National Forces" and the Cult of Mansfeld
- Notes
- The "Bastya" Group
- Political Resistance at the Central Military Hospital
- The Mysterious Liaison
- Without Central Command
- Collapse
- Notes
- Appendix
- Maps
- Index
- About the Author
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