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Twelve Days

Victor Sebestyen
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Central European history
Cold War
Communist Hungary
de-Stalinisation
Eastern Bloc
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History of Budapest
History of Hungary
Hungarian history
Hungarian revolt
Hungarian Revolution
Hungarian Uprising
Imre Nagy
Khrushchev
postwar history
Stalin
twentieth century history
USSR
Victor Sebastian
Victor Sebastyen
Warsaw Pact

Product details

  • ISBN 9780753822142
  • Weight: 315g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jun 2007
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.
About Victor Sebestyen
Victor Sebestyen is the acclaimed author of TWELVE DAYS (W&N, 2006), REVOLUTION 1989 (W&N, 2009) and 1946 (Macmillan, 2014). He was born in Budapest. He was a child when his family left Hungary as refugees. As a journalist, he has worked for numerous British newspapers, including the EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL and THE TIMES. He reported widely from Eastern Europe when Communism collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. He covered the wars in former Yugoslavia and the breakup of the Soviet Union. At the EVENING STANDARD he was foreign editor, media editor and chief leader writer. He is an associate editor of NEWSWEEK.

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