Regional Responses to Communism Wladyslaw Gomulka, a communist leader, speaks to A man spits on decapitated head of A man protests in front of Soviet tank in Prague, the people of Warsaw, Poland in 1956. Stalin’s statue in Hungary, 1956. Czechoslovakia in 1968. Source: Wieslaw Wladyka, Dzieje PRL. Pazdziernik 56, Source: "Hungary 1956 - Reading Guide." Source: Ladislav Bielik, printed in (Warsaw,1994), p. 73. N.p., n.d. Web. Hungary 1956 - Reading Guide. 01 Feb. 2015. Context: Polish October (1956) and Hungarian Uprising (1956). Context: Prague Spring (1968) Both the Polish and Hungarian uprisings must be understood in relation to Joseph Stalin’s The Prague Spring united students and workers in death in 1953 and Nikita Khrushchev’s Speech” in 1956, which opened the gates for calling for reforms within the communist In “Secret Eastern European countries to make reforms to communism. early 1968, Alexander Dubcek assumed leadership In 1956, workers in Poznan, a city in eastern Poland, protested shortages of food and of the communist party and pressed for specific consumer goods, bad housing, a decline in real income, trade relations with the Soviet reforms, such as ending censorship laws. Warsaw Union and poor management of the economy. Pact forces invaded Prague in 1968 because the The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 began as student protests against the leadership censorship reforms demanded too much change. regime but ended in a nationwide actions calling for reforms of the system and a The Brezhnev Doctrine, articulated by Soviet withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. The Hungarian Revolution (as opposed to the Polish leaders, made it clear that the USSR would October) ended violently with Soviet tanks in the streets, street fighting, and the violently repress reforms in the Eastern Bloc if they execution of the Hungarian revolutionary leader, Imre Nagy. strayed too far from Soviet doctrine.
Regional Responses to Communism Wladyslaw Gomulka, a communist leader, speaks to the people of Warsaw, Poland in 1956. Source: Wieslaw Wladyka, Dzieje PRL. Pazdziernik 56, (Warsaw,1994), p. 73. A man spits on decapitated head of Stalin’s statue in Hungary, 1956. Source: "Hungary 1956 - Reading Guide." Hungary 1956 - Reading Guide. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Feb. 2015. A man protests in front of Soviet tank in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1968. Source: Ladislav Bielik, printed in Context: Polish October (1956) and Hungarian Uprising (1956). Both the Polish and Hungarian uprisings must be understood in relation to Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953 and Nikita Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” in 1956, which opened the gates for Eastern European countries to make reforms to communism. In 1956, workers in Poznan, a city in eastern Poland, protested shortages of food and consumer goods, bad housing, a decline in real income, trade relations with the Soviet Union and poor management of the economy. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 began as student protests against the leadership regime but ended in a nationwide actions calling for reforms of the system and a withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. The Hungarian Revolution (as opposed to the Polish October) ended violently with Soviet tanks in the streets, street fighting, and the execution of the Hungarian revolutionary leader, Imre Nagy. Context: Prague Spring (1968) The Prague Spring united students and workers in calling for reforms within the communist In early 1968, Alexander Dubcek assumed leadership of the communist party and pressed for specific reforms, such as ending censorship laws. Warsaw Pact forces invaded Prague in 1968 because the censorship reforms demanded too much change. The Brezhnev Doctrine, articulated by Soviet leaders, made it clear that the USSR would violently repress reforms in the Eastern Bloc if they strayed too far from Soviet doctrine.
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