One Day That Shook the Communist World – The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy

by Ann Major (Translator), Ann Major (Translator), Paul Lendvai (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $25.48

  On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. This book presents an eyewitness account and an history of the uprising in Hungary that heralded the future liberation of Eastern Europe.