1956: Mao's China and the Hungarian Crisis

by Dandan Zhu

Book Overview

In Mao Zedong's words, 1956 was a year of "big events," both at home and abroad. The "secret speech" delivered by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Twentieth Congress had, according to Mao, "opened the lid" on the repressiveness of the postwar Soviet-style regimes, thereby "making a mess" by inspiring a wave of de-Stalinization that culminated in the massive demonstrations in Poland and Hungary. The Hungarian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933947705
• ISBN13: 9781933947709
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher