Hungary 1956

Some reading for today, the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising. First, two superb blog posts:

• The Poor Mouth: How Soviet tanks crushed dreams of British communists
• Adloyada: Hungary night

And, from the archive:

• Peter Fryer's Hungarian Tragedy - Probably the key test, from an eyewitness shaken out of Stalinism by his experience of the uprising and its crushing
• Andy Anderson Hungary '56
• The Hungarian Revolt
• Council Communist Pamphlet
• Cold War History Project
• Mike Haynes at IS
• Socialist Party archives
• International Viewpoint: The Crushing of the Hungarian revolution

Update: As I write this, police in Budapest are firing at peaceful protestors from the opposition parties, who boycotted the official celebrations. (See here.)

Tag: Hungary
Keywords: Stalinism, Soviet invasion, Budapest, tanks, tankies, Hungarian revolution, Hungarian uprising