British Perspective on Hungarian Revolution 1956

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https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=671575

2017-2021/10/18/12:03:18

Summary/Abstract: The Hungarian Revolution caught unprepared Western powers preoccupied with the Suez crisis. The clashes between the Soviets and the Hungarians were the first ‚ever armed conflict between communist countries in Europe. The British position in the Hungarian Revolution 1956, as well as the French and American one, was based on the intent not to provoke the Soviet Union. Although British officials gave assurances they would not interfere in the Hungarian crisis, diplomatic sources evidently demonstrate that those events were very important for them. After the collapse of the Imre Nagy government and the Revolution the British primary focus was not to allow Soviets and Kadar’s government to hide persecutions and humanitarian crisis that marked Hungary in the post-revolution period. The paper is based on the unpublished diplomatic reports of British diplomats in Budapest, Vienna, Moscow and New York, kept in the Foreign Office collections of the National Archives in London.

1956, British, Foreign Office, Hungarian Revolution, Imre Nagy, United Nations