THE TRUTH ABOUT HUNGARYBOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR American Negro Slave Revolts Essays in the History of the American Negro The Negro People in America: A Critique of Myrdat’s “American Dilemma” To Be Free: Studies in American Negro History A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States Laureates of Imperialism: Big Business Re-Writes American History History and Reality Toward Negro Freedom _ The Truth About Hungary by Herbert ApthekerCopyright 1957 by MASSES & MAINSTREAM, INC. oe Published by MAINSTREAM PUBLISHERS 832 Broadway, New York 3, N. ¥. ‘May, 1957 PRINTED IN THE U.S A. Author's Foreword .. L UL. m1. Iv. VI. vu. vat. IX. Conclusion .....++ Contents Introduction 9 Special Features of Hungary's Development .......... 14 Reconstruction and Revolution 41 Counter-Revolution and Cold War .. 69 Basic Developments Within Hungary: 1950-1955 ..... 120 Sources of Popular Discontent in the New Hungary... 182 sevens 156 Efforts at Change - The Uprising ... The Uprising (continued) ... . 216 - 247