On Nov. 4, 1956, after the Russian invasion of Hungary, Anna Kéthly, Hungarian delegate to the U.N., flew to New York to appeal to the General Assembly for assistance.

The Oct. 23 national holiday commemorates the beginning of a 1956 popular uprising against Soviet repression that began in Hungary’s capital, Budapest, and spread across the country.

To mark the anniversary of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, I’m publishing in this space an essay from Stephen Sholl, an American academic living in Budapest, and a friend I made this summer: ...

I t lasted less than three weeks, from Oct. 23 until Nov. 10, but the Hungarian Revolution that convulsed Budapest and the rest of Hungary in late 1956 sent shock waves through eastern and central ...

Hungary had been under the control of the Soviet Union ever since Soviet troops liberated the country from the Nazis in 1945, but by October of 1956, Hungarians had reason to believe the tide was ...

A history of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, published as a special supplement of Anarchist Worker on the 20th anniversary in 1976 Hungary '56 - Andy Anderson. Andy Anderson's pamphlet, written in ...

But in 1956, Hungarian workers were cut off from this perspective as a result of Stalinist purges and repression. There existed no section of the Fourth International in Hungary.

Much like Imre Nagy, the leaders of the Silent Revolution in Iran have also been faithful servants of the regime. They, too, are proud nationalists, but not crazies. They seek only the simplest of ...

Our peaceful life in Nyirbator, Hungary, a picturesque farming community was abruptly disrupted into chaos with the invasion of Russians on October 23rd, 1956. My parents who survived World War II ...

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However, the fire spread to Hungary. In the spring of 1956, immediately following Khrushchev’s speech, violent protests erupted among intellectuals, writers and students against the Rákosi regime.