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  1956 Hungarian Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, also known as the Hungarian Uprising or simply the Hungarian Revolt, was an anti-Soviet revolt in Hungary lasting from 23 October to 4 November 1956.
Hungarian MP Imre Mécs (a death sentence survivor of the 1956 Revolution) said that more tanks were used by the Soviets than the Germans used to invade the USSR in WW2.
That it was a spontaneous revolution with a broad intention of establishing political self determination within existing social contexts, particularly in terms of an alignment of Central European states.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hungarian_revolution   (3225 words)

  
 Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This led to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution/revolt and announced withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact were met with military intervention by the Soviet Union and the deposition and execution of the reform-minded communist prime minister Imre Nagy.
Hungarian sovereign debt was upgraded in 2000 to the second-highest rating among all the Central European transition economies.
Several large Hungarian minorities exist across the border in neighbouring countries, notably in Ukraine (in Transcarpathia), Slovakia, Romania (in Transylvania), Serbia (in Vojvodina) and a smaller ones in Austria (in Burgenland), Croatia and Slovenia.
hungary.iqnaut.net   (1889 words)

  
 1956 Hungarian Revolution NEWS from the American Hungarian Federation - Founded 1906
The resolution's title: "Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution and recognizing the sacrifices of Hungarian Freedom Fighters, the contributions of Hungarian Americans, and the friendship between the people and governments of the United States and Hungary." Full text of the Texas resolution can be found on the Texas House Website.
In what hopes to be an annual revival of the famed Hungarian Ball in Washington, the gala, fl-tie affair raised funds to support the Hungarian Scouts of Washington, D.C., and a series of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Hungarian historical communities living in the countries neighboring Hungary.
The United Hungarian Societies in Cleveland has invited former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for two days of meetings with AHF and other Hungarian-American community leaders and multi-denominational clergy culminating in a commemoration of the 48th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in which thousands died and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee.
www.americanhungarianfederation.org /news_1956.htm   (4389 words)

  
 Hungarian Immigrants - Budapest 4 U
Hungarian Immigration Peak immigration-1907 Hungary was part of the polyglot...
...the Faith among the Hungarian immigrants is still alive and engaged in active work.
The son of a Hungarian immigrant, the interior minister has taken France by storm.
www.deellaw.com /hungarian-immigrants.html   (396 words)

  
 Radix links: Biographies
Mini-biographies of the officers in the 1848/1849 Hungarian revolution with Jewish heritage.
Mini-biographies of the officers in the 1848/1849 Hungarian revolution hailing from Sopron County.
This is a database compiled by the Széchényi National Library (Budapest), containing biographical data of Hungarians living abroad, including emigrants, well-known members of Hungarian ethnic minorities etc. The database has information on about 8000 Hungarians living / who lived in the USA.
www.bogardi.com /cgi-bin/rdxlinks.pl?biographies   (1030 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for Bela Bartok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Previously, Bartók's idea of Hungarian folk music was derived from the gypsy melodies to be found in the works of Franz Liszt, and in 1903 Bartók had written a large orchestral work, Kossuth, which honored Lajos Kossuth, hero of the Hungarian revolution of 1848, incorporated such gypsy melodies....
Previously, Bartók's idea of Hungarian folk music was derived from the gypsy melodies to be found in the works of Franz Liszt, and in 1903 Bartók had written a large orchestral work, Kossuth, which honored Lajos Kossuth, hero of the Hungarian revolution of 1848, incorporated such gypsy melodies....
Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist by far the most important of Hungarian composers and responsible, with Zolt Kod ly, for the awakening of the interest in Hungarian folk music....
www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/3605.html   (1968 words)

  
 Crowd Politics in the Hungarian Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Crowd Politics in the Hungarian Revolution 1848 is the year of crowds shaking nations.
A small group of literati were impatient to act once revolution spread to Vienna, but they worried that Pest and Buda, an urban complex still in its infancy, might be an insufficient staging ground for mass pop ular action.
Széchenyi warned that the French Revolution could well come to look "like an innocent comedy, an insignificant joke, compared to what is about to unfold here." On March 30 some twenty thousand assembled waving red flags and demanding weapons while Petofi proclaimed the coming of world revolution.
cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ac/crowd.htm   (1420 words)

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