Hungarian Revolt
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History
- Subcategories: Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Communism, Communists
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Eastern European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Hungary
- Date: October 23-November 14, 1956
Article abstract: At issue: Maintenance of a communist government and Soviet military base in Hungary in the face of an anti-Soviet, anticommunist revolt. Result: Soviet victory; an authoritarian communist regime was reimposed, which ruled until 1990.
Background
Hungary was under Soviet military occupation in 1945, when liberated from Nazi control. For several years afterward, the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, the renamed communist party, relied on the Soviet army and secret police to intimidate, arrest, and manufacture treason conspiracies against...
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