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Article: Tito and the Nagy affair in 1956. (Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, Imre Nagy, Hungarian revolution, Soviet Union)
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- East European Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Four decades ago, the first major anti-Soviet uprising in Eastern Europe -- the 1956 revolution in Hungary -- took place. Many scholars writing about this event during the Cold War have operated more or less on the implicit assumption that the Soviet leaders were the key aggressors and all the East European leaders the reluctant and passivist allies.(2) To use a trite metaphor: the dog (USSR) wagged the tail (East Europe). The end of the Cold War and opening of Soviet bloc archives now permit scholars to gain a better understanding, not simply of Soviet behavior, but also of the behavior and motivation of the other communist states, and of the deeper nuances of intrabloc ...