Contents
Introduction
1. A Day That Shook the Communist World
2. The Road to Revolution
3. A Night of Cataclysmic Decisions
4. The Legend of the Corvinists
5. Wrestling for the Soul of Imre Nagy
6. Deadlocked
7. A Turnaround with a Question Mark
8. The General, the Colonel, and the Adjutant
9. The Dams Are Breaking
10. The Condottiere, the "Uncle," and the Romantics
11. Decision in the Kremlin: The End of Patience
12. Double Dive into Darkness
13. The Puppeteers and the Kadar Enigma
14. Operation Whirlwind and Kadar's Phantom Government
15. The Yugoslav-Soviet Conspiracy
16. The Second Revolution
17. The Moral Bankruptcy of the U.S. Liberation Theory
18. Worldwide Reactions
19. The Barbarous Vendetta of the Victors
20. 1956-1989: Victory in Defeat?
Epilogue: Whose 1956?
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index