The view from the Soviet Union...
Emigre Analysis and Commentary
In 1956 a Russian emigre in Munich published a pamphlet called The Rising Wave, linking events in Hungary to anti-Soviet activity in Poznan, East Berlin, and Tbilisi, as well as the prisoner uprisings in the Soviet gulag at Kengir and Vorkuta. The pamphlet has now been digitized by the University of Illinois Library.
The West tries to catch up with events...
An excerpt from Intercontinental Press Service's 1957 Leading personalities in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania): a desk reference for editors and journalists (UIUC call number Main Stacks Q.920.04 In8l).
Bad timing...or maybe good
The First Russian Revolution (e.g., of 1905-1907) and the Hungarian labor movement, published in 1956 on the occasion of that revolution's 50th anniversary
...and from elsewhere
Thoughts on 1956 and its significance for the international workers' movement by the "dean of Mexican Marxists."
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