Translated title: Alone Amid the Storm: The Hungarian Uprising and the Western Powers
Authors: Ding, Xiaopeng ; Smetana, Vít (advisor) ; Toth, Gyorgy (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2013
Language: eng
Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to review and revise all historical evidence hitherto available concerning the international aspects of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. Its scope includes several layers, including how the peoples in the West, as well as their leaders, behaved during the crisis. It will look at the international arena in 1956 from the Hungarian perspective, as well as attempt to come to a historical explanation for Western, and specifically American actions during the uprising, and the precepts which led to them. In doing so, it shall in particular take a careful revision of the long-standing charges levelled against the West, concerning its alleged passivity, hypocrisy, or willingness to escalate the crisis via the controversial broadcasts of Radio Free Europe.
Keywords: 1956; Cold War; Eisenhower Foreign Policy; Hungarian Revolution; Imre Nagy

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/52654

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