The Hungarian opposition Tisza Party, led by former government insider Péter Magyar, has increased its lead over Prime ...

The Hungarian leader, who had been in control since 1949, was Mátyás Rákosi, a hard-line communist fully under the control of Moscow. Rákosi’s secret police (the AVH) created a climate of ...

Hello and welcome back to This Week in History! What a week it is, being the last before the dreadful finals week finally arrives and the semester ends. It’s a time of change and hard work, but ...

Speaking before thousands of supporters in Budapest, Orbán was marking Hungary’s national holiday commemorating a 1956 armed uprising against Soviet repression that began in the capital and ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during the meating to mark the 68th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, at the Millenaris Park, in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.

Forgotten Faces is an early amateur film made by the director Peter Watkins recreating the Hungarian Revolution from the point of view of a small… The Hungarian Revolt of 1956 - Peter Pallai An ...

Dignitaries take part in a national day event commemorating the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 at the Ambassador hotel in ...

In his dank Budapest prison cell in the mid-1950s, my father imagined he heard Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony. Though no one ...

Eventually, the regime began to disintegrate, leading to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution - a critical moment in the history of the Cold War. But why did this revolution occur in Hungary, rather than any ...