Hungary's Cold War

Hungary's Cold War
Author: Csaba Békés
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469667495

In this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Unlike many studies of the global Cold War that focus on East-West relationships—often from the vantage point of the West—Bekes grounds his work in the East, drawing on little-used, non-English sources. As such, he offers a new and sweeping Cold War narrative using Hungary as a case study, demonstrating that the East-Central European states have played a much more important role in shaping both the Soviet bloc's overall policy and the East-West relationship than previously assumed. Similarly, he shows how the relationship between Moscow and its allies, as well as among the bloc countries, was much more complex than it appeared to most observers in the East and the West alike.

Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956

Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956
Author: L szl¢ Borhi
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789639241800

"Based on new archival evidence, this book examines Soviet empire building in Hungary and the American response to it." "The book analyzes why, given all its idealism and power, the U.S. failed even in its minimal aims concerning the states of Eastern Europe. Eventually both the United States and the Soviet Union pursued power politics: the Soviets in a naked form, the U.S. subtly, but both with little regard for the fate of Hungarians."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Failed Illusions

Failed Illusions
Author: Charles Gati
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

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.

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

The 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Author: Csaba B‚k‚s
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789639241664

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.

Polio Across the Iron Curtain

Polio Across the Iron Curtain
Author: Dóra Vargha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2018-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108420842

Through the lens of polio, Dóra Vargha looks anew at international health, communism and Cold War politics. This title is also available as Open Access.

The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle?

The Hungarian Agricultural Miracle?
Author: Zsuzsanna Varga
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2020-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 179363436X

This book examines Soviet agriculture in post-1945 Hungary. It demonstrates how the agrarian lobby, a development following the 1956 revolution, led to contact with the West which allowed for the creation of an effective agricultural system. The author argues that this ‘Hungarian agricultural miracle,’ a hybrid of American technology and Soviet structures, was fundamental to the success of Hungarian collectivization.

Twelve Days

Twelve Days
Author: Victor Sebestyen
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2010-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0297865439

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.

Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary, and Austria 1944/45?1948/49

Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary, and Austria 1944/45?1948/49
Author: Csaba Bekes
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2015-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 963386075X

This book compares the various aspects ? political, military economic ? of Soviet occupation in Austria, Hungary and Romania. Using documents found in Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian archives the authors argue that the nature of Soviet foreign policy has been misunderstood. Existing literature has focused on the Soviet foreign policy from a political perspective; when and why Stalin made the decision to introduce Bolshevik political systems in the Soviet sphere of influence. This book will show that the Soviet conquest of East-Central Europe had an imperial dimension as well and allowed the Soviet Union to use the territory it occupied as military and economic space. The final dimension of the book details the tragically human experiences of Soviet occupation: atrocities, rape, plundering and deportations.

Hungarian Uprising

Hungarian Uprising
Author: Louis Archard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2018
Genre: Hungary
ISBN: 9781526708038