Satellites or prime movers? Polish and Hungarian reactions to the 1956 events: new archival evidence.

East European Quarterly | December 22, 2001| | Copyright

"Happy is he who knows the causes of things," wrote the eminent historian Henry Steele Commager. "If this is true then historians are forever pursuing happiness, but never quite attaining it. Of all problems of history, causation is the most urgent, the most fascinating, and the most baffling." (1) Researchers today can better explain the causes of the popular revolts in Poland and Hungary in 1956, thanks to the opening of communist bloc archives in the early 1990s. In earlier times, scholars habitually analyzed the crises of 1956 from the Soviet viewpoint, focusing almost ...

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