A testament of revolution / Béla Lipták. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipták, Béla G.

Series:

Eastern European studies (College Station, Tex.) ; no. 13.

Eastern European studies ; no. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hungary--History--Revolution, 1956--Personal narratives.

Hungary.

Genre:

History.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p. ) ill., map ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Testament of Revolution

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Terse, staccato, like a dispatch from the front, Bela Liptak's A Testament of Revolution peels away more than four decades of intervening history to give readers a vivid, firsthand look at the brief, doomed struggle of Hungarian freedom fighters against Russian oppressors." "Written in 1956 in an Austrian refugee camp, where the author had fled to escape reprisals for his role in the short-lived rebellion, Liptak's memoir compellingly sketches the conflict between university students, factory workers, and Hungarian nationalists on one side and the hated Hungarian secret police and Russian army troops on the other."--Jacket.

Contents:

Just an Average Day

Birth of Mefesz and the Sixteen Points

My Tricolor Armband

Enough of Listening

Mefesz Headquarters of the Technical University

Getting the Arms

Hungary's Jews and Germans

A Barrel of Blood

Top Secret

Jancsi's Murder

Beginning of the End

Lives on the Line

Interrogation

Home

Escaping Hungary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-58544-912-1