HIST352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Communist Party Of The Soviet Union, Authoritarianism, Utopia
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; hungarian uprising, 1956; uprising eventually crushed; soviets back-ups; hundreds arrested an executed; nagy sent to moscow, secretly tried and executed, buried in eastern. Nato; france became own program of nuclear arm movements to build itself up as the central power in a new european coalition against moscow and. 1966: repression of hungary made it clear to other countries where the line was drawn, made communist leaders continue to follow and deepen reform policies; complete restructuring of economies xi. Produce stand, poland, 1960s: people that grew up in the war could see this change in their lifetime; people could look at their lives and see change, prosperity; so what they can"t go to west germany or the. Freedom to starve or go to these countries: beginning of their own consumer revolution, social transformations. Dubcek taken out; upper echelon purged: gustav husak now gen. sec. xi.