From the Archives of Warsaw and Budapest: A Comparison of the Events of 1956
From the Archives of Warsaw and Budapest: A Comparison of the Events of 1956
Author(s): Johanna GranvilleSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Studies in violence and power, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Archival documents; political history; events of 1956; violence and power; Soviet Union; communism;
Summary/Abstract: "There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves," wrote Benito Mussolini. "There is also violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral." For more than 40 years, cynical scholars of the Hungarian revolution thought the Soviet leaders ' immoral, enslaving violence in 1956 had triumphed over the Hungarians' moral, liberating violence. The collapse of the communist regime in 1989 vindicated the freedom fighters' cause, completing the revolution they had initiated 33 years earlier. The document collections declassified over the past several years offer new insights into the much-debated question: Why did the Soviet Union intervene in Hungary but not in Poland? […]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 16/2002
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 521-563
- Page Count: 43
- Language: English
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