11 November, 1956 Soviets claim victory over Hungarian freedom fighters. Fighting in Budapest has died down ... Some 700 Soviet soldiers died in the uprising including some executed for refusing to ...

Did the Hungarian Revolution achieve its goals? The Hungarian Revolution did not achieve its immediate goals of independence from Soviet control and the establishment of a new government. On ...

The Hungarian leader, who had been in control since 1949, was Mátyás Rákosi, a hard-line communist fully under the control of Moscow. Rákosi’s secret police (the AVH) created a climate of ...

Soviet troops eventually reentered Budapest and crushed the uprising. But despite their eventual defeat, the Hungarian rebels of 1956 inflicted what would come to be known as "the first tear" in ...

Forgotten Faces is an early amateur film made by the director Peter Watkins recreating the Hungarian Revolution from the point of view of a small… The Hungarian Revolt of 1956 - Peter Pallai An ...

Hello and welcome back to This Week in History! What a week it is, being the last before the dreadful finals week finally arrives and the semester ends. It’s a time of change and hard work, but ...

Eventually, the regime began to disintegrate, leading to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution - a critical moment in the history of the Cold War. But why did this revolution occur in Hungary, rather than any ...

The Hungarian opposition Tisza Party, led by former government insider Péter Magyar, has increased its lead over Prime ...

Dignitaries take part in a national day event commemorating the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 at the Ambassador hotel in ...