HUNGARIAN ANALYSIS OF 1956 REVOLUTION

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 2, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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Hungarian Analysis of 1956 Revolution
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A. The International Situation
1. The disintegration of the international balance
of power and its shifting toward the Western world
caused by the Polish and Hungarian events.
2. The situation of the USSR bas deteriorated and has
been weakened because of the political, ideological,
economic and military changes that occurred within
the limits of the so-called People?s Democracy coun-
tries and also because of increasing dictatorship
and terror. As a result the numbers of Communists
and Ca munist sympathizers decreased in the Western
countries.
B. Connection Between Cause and Effect
1. The XX Party Congress destroyed the Stalinist myth
and freed criticism.
2. The relative amelioration of foreign connections
(travel, revival of cultural and scientific ex-
change).
3. The autocraticly conducted planned economy created
a difficult economic situation, and resulted in the
decreasing living standard and reduced wages.
4. The one-sided development of the technology and the
failure and bankruptcy of the over-developed industry
and agriculture caused plan modifications, the in-
ventories at hand increased, the value of the bank-
notes decreased and inflationary symptoms appeared.
5. The constant reorganization of industry and the de-
centralization caused economic chaos in many cases.
6. Ideological crisis. The liquidation of the personality
cult, the theory of the "Two Roads to Socialism", the
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prrobie of existence of the two sat2d markets, the
abet of the thesnf of the sky 0912h 'LA9 Of
the class struggle, etc.
The difficulties in the 1altvx policy. Discussions
and disputes in flee artist and literary federatiaar
about the party litre. linspaper articles. The flume
of V w Socialist reall.sr.
Rehnbilitatios. Application and sa leyasat of the dis-
carded politicians. The lash f moral as a damasta w,
release of the fame r $seial-Deaescrats and sir J40r-
placament, etc.
Firing of army and police paarsomnel as WCause of dis-
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