Annus Mirabilis - A Year in Photos - Part 1 - As 1988 Turned into 1989
Annus Mirabilis - A Year in Photos - Part 1 - As 1988 Turned into 1989

Summary/Abstract: Hungarians lived through more changes and upheavals in 1988 than in any one year since 1956. Politics burst onto the streets -whether officially permitted or not -and János Kádár, in his dotage, was dislodged from the country’s helm, which he had steered since 1956. In terms of Eastern European politics, this was a peaceful changing of the guard. The sense of the end of an era and uncertainty about the future was pervasive. Hungary had a forty-year-old prime minister by November; his government was to be swept along by the avalanche of 1989.

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