Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati

Probably the hottest question of recent times is the problem of employment, its extent and types also involving unemployment, the lack of proper jobs and the expansion of part-time and e-working and fixed term contracts, which increase the defenceless the of workers.

Hungarian economic thinking tends to accept many now mostly outdated economic relationships as unquestionable axioms. Many of these axioms have been outdated by the fact that the one time free market capitalism has been replaced by a capitalism ruled by large global companies. Other myths have been fixed in the period of state-socialism and intractably survived in the present capitalist environment although they have little to do with present reality.

Historians still debate why and how the soviet military intervention happened in Hungary in 1956, which suppressed the uprising. Based on records of the meetings of CPSU Central Committee in the autumn of 1956, the author reconstructs top-level party decisions made concerning the soviet military intervention.