East European History

Table of Contents

Courses

History 0200

• Topic 1
• Topic 2
• Topic 3
• Topic 4
• Topic 5
• Midterm Review
• Final Exam Options
• Final Review

Historical Timelines

• 1998-1953

• 1953-1998

History 1270

• Outline
• Questions

Useful Links

Maps

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Library Resources

Topic Three - Lecture Two

A Post-Stalin Chronology

 

Stalin's Death -- March 1953

East European Revolts (1953)

Czechoslovakia: Pilsen

East Germany

Contest between Orthodox (Rakosi, Bierut) and more liberal Marxists (Nagy, Gomulka)

1955 Nagy is ousted. He retreats to write

1956: Khrushchev' s Secret Speech (March)

Bierut dies in Moscow

Petofi Circle gets permission to meet in Budapest

June: Poznan workers' riots

October: The "Polish October"

• Gomulka is reinstated

The Hungarian Revolution

• Oct. 24 Soviet tanks roll in
• Nov. 1 Janos Kadar takes over