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The 1956 Hungarian Revolution - A History in Documents (Paperback, Illustrated Ed): Csaba Bekes, Malcolm Byrne, Janos M. Rainer The 1956 Hungarian Revolution - A History in Documents (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Csaba Bekes, Malcolm Byrne, Janos M. Rainer; Preface by Arpad Goencz; Foreword by Charles Gati; Contributions by …
R1,189 Discovery Miles 11 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

If there had been all-news television channels in 1956, viewers around the world would have been glued to their sets between October 23 and November 4. This book tells the story of the Hungarian Revolution in 120 original documents, ranging from the minutes of the first meeting of Khrushchev with Hungarian bosses after Stalin's death in 1953 to Yeltsin's declaration made in 1992. Other documents include letters from Yuri Andropov, Soviet Ambassador in Budapest during and after the revolt. The great majority of the material appears in English for the first time, and almost all come from archives that were inaccessible until the 1990s.

Zbig - The Strategy and Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Hardcover, New): Charles Gati Zbig - The Strategy and Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Hardcover, New)
Charles Gati; Foreword by Jimmy Carter
R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Zbigniew Brzezinski's multifaceted career dealing with U.S. security and foreign policy has led him from the halls of academia to multiple terms in public service, including a stint as President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. He is a renowned policy analyst and author who frequently appears as a commentator on popular talk shows, and his strategic vision continues to carry a great deal of gravitas. in Zbig, Charles Gati has enlisted many of the top foreign policy players of the past thirty years to reflect on and analyze Brzezinski and his work. A senior scholar in Eastern European and Russian studies, Gati observed firsthand much of the history and politics surrounding Brzezinski's career. His vibrant introduction and concluding interview with Brzezinski frame this critical assessment of a major statesman's accomplishments. Contributors: Justin Vaisse, David C. Engerman, Mark Kramer, David J. Rothkopf, Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Robert A. Pastor, William B. Quandt, Robert Hunter, James Thomson, Patrick Vaughan, Marin Strmecki, James Mann, David Ignatius, Adam Garfinkle, Stephen F. Szabo, Francis Fukuyama, Charles Gati

Zbig - The Strategy and Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Paperback): Charles Gati Zbig - The Strategy and Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Paperback)
Charles Gati; Foreword by Jimmy Carter
R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Zbigniew Brzezinski's multifaceted career dealing with U.S. security and foreign policy has led him from the halls of academia to multiple terms in public service, including a stint as President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. He is a renowned policy analyst and author who frequently appears as a commentator on popular talk shows, and his strategic vision continues to carry a great deal of gravitas. in Zbig, Charles Gati has enlisted many of the top foreign policy players of the past thirty years to reflect on and analyze Brzezinski and his work. A senior scholar in Eastern European and Russian studies, Gati observed firsthand much of the history and politics surrounding Brzezinski's career. His vibrant introduction and concluding interview with Brzezinski frame this critical assessment of a major statesman's accomplishments. Contributors: Justin Vaisse, David C. Engerman, Mark Kramer, David J. Rothkopf, Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Robert A. Pastor, William B. Quandt, Robert Hunter, James Thomson, Patrick Vaughan, Marin Strmecki, James Mann, David Ignatius, Adam Garfinkle, Stephen F. Szabo, Francis Fukuyama, Charles Gati

Failed Illusions - Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt (Paperback): Charles Gati Failed Illusions - Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt (Paperback)
Charles Gati
R637 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R98 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the 2007 Marshall Shulman Prize
The 1956 Hungarian revolution, and its suppression by the U.S.S.R., was a key event in the cold war, demonstrating deep dissatisfaction with both the communist system and old-fashioned Soviet imperialism. But now, fifty years later, the simplicity of this David and Goliath story should be revisited, according to Charles Gati's new history of the revolt.
Denying neither Hungarian heroism nor Soviet brutality, "Failed Illusions" nevertheless modifies our picture of what happened. Imre Nagy, a reform communist who headed the revolutionary government and turned into a genuine patriot, could not rise to the occasion by steering a realistic course between his people's demands and Soviet geopolitical and ideological interests. The United States was all talk, no action, while Radio Free Europe simultaneously backed the insurgents' unrealizable demands and opposed Nagy. In the end, the Soviet Union followed its imperial impulse instead of seeking a political solution to the crisis in the spirit of de-Stalinization.
"Failed Illusions" is based on extensive archival research, including the CIA's operational files, and hundreds of interviews with participants in Budapest, Moscow, and Washington. Personal observations by the author, a young reporter in Budapest in 1956, bring the tragic story vividly to life.

The Bloc That Failed - Soviet-East European Relations in Transition (Hardcover): Charles Gati The Bloc That Failed - Soviet-East European Relations in Transition (Hardcover)
Charles Gati
R823 R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Save R65 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

..". lucid and stimulating... " The New York Times Book Review

"Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the new Eastern Europe and the collapse of Soviet control over it informative and incisive." Zbigniew Brzezinski

"Gati s book... is the most current and best-informed study of this rapidly changing world.... Professor Gati is uniquely qualified to understand and give perspective to the impact of perestroika and Soviet new thinking on the events in Eastern Europe." William H. Luers, Former U. S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia

..". a superb synthesis of the postwar evolution of Soviet-East European relations and the first up-to-date analysis of the revolutionary events in that part of the world in 1989." Michael Mandelbaum, Council on Foreign Relations

"An up-to-date and lucid overview of the troubled course of Soviet-East European relations at time of momentous change in the Soviet bloc." Sarah M. Terry

..". excellent analysis and synthesis... " Foreign Affairs

"this book is written in a lively style and is a good scholarly synthesis of the post-Second World War evolution of Soviet-East European relations ending in the revolutionary events of 1989." Canadian Journal of Political Science

..". a lively and perceptive account... " Military Review

"Clearly and simply written, this book is particularly useful as a compact introduction to the prehistory and transformation of East European politics." Choice

"It is well organized, readable, and sensitive to complexity; find the time to read it." History"

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