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John Mason describes the convoluted way in which Hungary has publicly celebrated its history through all the vicissitudes of its recent past. |
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 Cartoon historian Mark Bryant looks at the career of Victor Weisz (Vicky), for whom the Hungarian Uprising and its repression by Soviet tanks proved a political turning-point and the catalyst for some of his most powerful cartoons. Published in History Today, Volume: 56 Issue: 10, 2006
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Michael Simmons has been back to Budapest as it prepares to commemorate the anniversary of the 1956 Uprising, and finds many questions still unanswered. |
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Gabriel Ronay remembers the dramatic days of October 1956 when, as a student in Budapest, he was at the heart of the protests against the Soviet occupation. |
 The mutual defence treaty between Communist states was signed on May 14th, 1955. |
 John Mason describes the convoluted way in which Hungary has publicly celebrated its history through all the vicissitudes of its recent past. |
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The Hungarian Diet issued its manifesto for independence on April 14th, 1849. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev's period as President of the Soviet Union, 1985-91, was truly revolutionary. But Steven Morewood argues that he failed to understand or control the forces he unleashed. |
 Valery Rees surveys the life of the ruler who put 15th-century Hungary on the map, both culturally and geographically, but whose efforts may have put an intolerable strain on the body politic. |
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