A Good Comrade: Janos Kadar, Communism and Hungary

by Roger Gough

Few political lives have been as dramatic, or as marked by sudden changes of fortune, as that of Janos Kadar, Hungary's communist leader from 1956 to 1988. A reformist who at first supported Imre Nagy's 1956 attempt to distance his country from Soviet domination, Kadar eventually threw in his lot with the Soviet Union and the repression which followed Hungary's attempt at revolution in 1956. Was he an ambitious, ruthless party functionary or a tragic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845110587
• ISBN13: 9781845110581
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.6"