He yielded the premiership to rotund Imre Nagy (rhymes with budge), another oldtime Hungarian Communist, who was a Hungarian language broadcaster in Moscow during World War II. Nagy talked big ...

Members of the AVO (secret police) are killed, Soviet statues ... of the Communist Party and leave the Warsaw Pact. 1 Nov 1956 Nagy accepts the rebels’ demands. He announces that Hungary will ...

One of the most perceptive, if also the most controversial, observers of events before and during the Hungarian revolution of 23 October to 4 November 1956 was Leslie B. Bain, the American journalist ...