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UNINA9910458725803321 |
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Lendvai Paul <1929-> |
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One day that shook the Communist world [[electronic resource] ] : the 1956 Hungarian uprising and its legacy / / Paul Lendvai ; translated by Ann Major |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2008 |
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1-282-96477-1 |
9786612964770 |
1-4008-3764-2 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary |
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Hungary History Revolution, 1956 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translated from the German. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-284) and index. |
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A day that shook the Communist world -- The road to revolution -- A night of cataclysmic decisions -- The legend of the corvinists -- Wrestling for the soul of Imre Nagy -- Deadlocked -- A turnaround with a question mark -- The general, the colonel, and the adjutant -- The dams are breaking -- The condottiere, the "Uncle," and the romantics -- Decision in the Kremlin: the end of patience -- Double dive into darkness -- The puppeteers and the Kádár Enigma -- Operation whirlwind and Kádár phantom government -- The Yugoslav-Soviet conspiracy -- The second revolution -- The moral bankruptcy of the U.S. liberation theory -- Worldwide reactions -- The barbarous vendetta of the victors -- 1956-1989: victory in defeat?. |
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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. Only now, fifty years after those harrowing events, can the full story be told. This book is a powerful eyewitness account and a gripping history of the uprising in Hungary that heralded the future liberation of Eastern Europe. Paul Lendvai was a young journalist covering politics in Hungary when the uprising broke |
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out. He knew the government officials and revolutionaries involved. He was on the front lines of the student protests and the bloody street fights and he saw the revolutionary government smashed by the Red Army. In this riveting, deeply personal, and often irreverent book, Lendvai weaves his own experiences with in-depth reportage to unravel the complex chain of events leading up to and including the uprising, its brutal suppression, and its far-reaching political repercussions in Hungary and neighboring Eastern Bloc countries. He draws upon exclusive interviews with Russian and former KGB officials, survivors of the Soviet backlash, and relatives of those executed. He reveals new evidence from closed tribunals and documents kept secret in Soviet and Hungarian archives. Lendvai's breathtaking narrative shows how the uprising, while tragic, delivered a stunning blow to Communism that helped to ultimately bring about its demise. One Day That Shook the Communist World is the best account of these unprecedented events. |
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UNINA9910972702003321 |
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Autore |
Caravantes Ernesto |
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From melting pot to witch's cauldron : how multiculturalism failed America / / Ernesto Caravantes |
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Lanham, Md., : Hamilton Books, 2010 |
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0-7618-9172-2 |
1-282-71349-3 |
9786612713491 |
0-7618-5057-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (131 p.) |
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Multiculturalism - United States |
United States History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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From Melting Pot to Witch's Cauldron; Contents; Preface; Part One; |
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Introduction; Chapter One: Plymouth Rock; Chapter Two: The Enlightenment; Chapter Three: The African Slaves in America; Chapter Four: The Scandinavian and Irish Migration; Chapter Five: The Mexican Border Is Re-Established; Chapter Six: The Arrival of the Jews; Chapter Seven: The 1960's Mentality: Started with Two Bullets; Chapter Eight: The Effects of the Civil Rights Movement; Chapter Nine: Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez Would Be Ashamed; Chapter Ten: The Formation of the Ghetto and the Barrio |
Chapter Eleven: Multiculturalism in League with Identity Politics Chapter Twelve: Multiculturalism in League with Political Correctness; Part Two; Chapter Thirteen: Let Us Define 'Culture'; Chapter Fourteen: Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?; Chapter Fifteen: What 'Failure' Implies; Chapter Sixteen: Why the Experiment Failed; Chapter Seventeen: The Role of Parents; Chapter Eighteen: The Role of the Universities; Chapter Nineteen: The Role of the Media; Chapter Twenty: Undoing the Damage; Chapter Twenty-One: The 21st Century American; Chapter Twenty-Two: Marching Forward and Closing Thoughts |
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This book explains that the original wishes of the founders of the American Republic, as well as those of modern luminaries like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez, have not been realized. Caravantes traces this problem to the radical activism of the 1960's, which introduced the notion of multiculturalism. |
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