Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2022
It is hard to reconstruct the short history of the Revolution, which was an unorganized and spontaneous affair. The revolutionaries represented a wide variety of points of view, but what held them together, at least temporarily, was their hostility to the old regime. In all probability the national consensus would not have long survived victory. The revolution, like all great revolutions, was amorphous and its history lends itself to different interpretations. It is this aspect of 1956 that enables diametrically opposed political groupings to claim its heritage at the present time.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.