A testament of revolution
"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 …
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- Full title :A testament of revolution / Béla Lipták.
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"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.
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- Publication Date:©2001.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Texas A & M University Press
- Place of Publication:College Station
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2001.
The Physical Object
- Description:206 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1585441201, 9781585441204
- oclc:ocm45243170
- LC Classification:DB957.3
- Dewey Decimal:943.905/2/092
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