Ten Years After

Fülszöveg

Published in the tenth year after the Hungarian rising, this book examines that particular watershed in the history of post-war communism as well'as setting out its origins and possible consequences. Hungary 1956 was not just an event that held the world enthralled but helpless: it led to radical changes within the country and within the entire Soviet bloc. The Russian leaders could not afford again to find themselves so obviously on the opposite side of popular forces. In a comparable way, the Western powers began to realise that to back revolution without the ability to give effective support was an act without any promise of success. Between them, the contributors to this volume help to explain the significance of the first major revolt against Russian hegemony in south-east Europe after the war and to look at the future implications as well as past horrors.
Stephen Barlay has contributed a thorough bibliography of the Revolution and a most useful chronology of events.
Jacket... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Published in the tenth year after the Hungarian rising, this book examines that particular watershed in the history of post-war communism as well'as setting out its origins and possible consequences. Hungary 1956 was not just an event that held the world enthralled but helpless: it led to radical changes within the country and within the entire Soviet bloc. The Russian leaders could not afford again to find themselves so obviously on the opposite side of popular forces. In a comparable way, the Western powers began to realise that to back revolution without the ability to give effective support was an act without any promise of success. Between them, the contributors to this volume help to explain the significance of the first major revolt against Russian hegemony in south-east Europe after the war and to look at the future implications as well as past horrors.
Stephen Barlay has contributed a thorough bibliography of the Revolution and a most useful chronology of events.
Jacket designed by Ken Reilly

Although not quite the first Kikuyu account of Mau Mau, this is undoubtedly the best and fullest It is irrefutable that the later attainment of Kenya's independence was founded on the Mau Mau revolt, defeated though it was in the field. It is therefore important to read what a participant Kikuyu saw, did and thought,' wrote P.H. Gulliver in New Society about Donald Barnett's
MAU MAU FROM WITHIN
including the autobiography of Karari Njama Vissza