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12 - Twelve Days of Freedom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2022

Peter Kenez
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University of California, Santa Cruz
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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.

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Before the Uprising
Hungary under Communism, 1949–1956
, pp. 251 - 257
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Twelve Days of Freedom
  • Peter Kenez, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Book: Before the Uprising
  • Online publication: 11 August 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009180443.013
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  • Twelve Days of Freedom
  • Peter Kenez, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Book: Before the Uprising
  • Online publication: 11 August 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009180443.013
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  • Twelve Days of Freedom
  • Peter Kenez, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Book: Before the Uprising
  • Online publication: 11 August 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009180443.013
Available formats
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