The first shots of the Hungarian revolution were fired 50 years ago on this day, October 23, 1956. An estimated 250,000 people had gathered in Budapest in front of the Parliament, protesting against ...

To mark the anniversary of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, I’m publishing in this space an essay from Stephen Sholl, an American academic living in Budapest, and a friend I made this summer: ...

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY – The Danube cuts through the city—Buda to the left, Pest to the Right, the long gone Austro-Hungarian Empire on either side, stoically represented in the 19th-century Baroque ...

Hungarians are feuding bitterly amongst themselves as they mark the 56th anniversary on Tuesday of the revolt in which the nation rose up to overthrow Soviet rule in a 1956 revolution. Subscribe to ...

The pictures are shockingly similar, just 66 years apart. Russian tanks again roll into a sovereign Eastern European nation to crush the democratic will of the people. To defend themselves, citizens ...

General Bela K. Kiraly, the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary forces in the Hungarian uprising of 1956, died on July 4 in Budapest. He was 97. For more than half a century he was considered a ...

The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was the first serious blow to the Soviet bloc that was established after the Red Army drove out Nazi German troops from central Europe at the end of the Second World War ...

My father was a member of the Revolutionary Committee of his workplace, the Hungarian National Bank. My grandfather, a realist, feared certain reprisal but still encouraged us to "take part in the ...

Executive Director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VCMF) Marion Smith and former Hungarian diplomat Zoltán Fehér, now a research fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's ...

Anti-government protesters clashed with Hungarian police yesterday as political tension erupted into violence on the anniversary of the country's bloody 1956 revolution. More than 20 people were ...