Imre Nagy How His Changing Political Ideas and Personal Developments Before and During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution Did Affect Imre Nagy’s Role of Becoming from a Convinced Communist the Leader of the Revolution and a Martyr of Freedom?
How his changing political ideas and personal developments before and during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution did affect Imre Nagy’s role of becoming from a convinced Communist the leader of the Revolution and a martyr of freedom?
A Plan of the investigation
1. Subject of the investigation
How the political thoughts of Imre Nagy did change so fast leading up to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution?
2. Method of investigation
i. Study the history of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. I selected authors who had direct memories of the events and of Imre Nagy. ii. Study various sources on Imre Nagy’s life and political beliefs before and during the Revolution in order to understand his transformation from a dye-hard communist into a national leader and martyr of freedom. iii. Selection of two detailed books on the personal and political factors of his transformation. One is Karl Benzinger’s Imre Nagy, Martyr of the Nation, and the other is Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen. iv. Analyze and compare the pre-1956 and the revolutionary leader Imre Nagy.
B. Summary of evidence
Imre Nagy has been one of the most emblematic personalities in Hungarian history, even in overall retrospect. Accordingly, there are abundant historical studies and interpretations on his political and personal background.
These sources uniformly agree that he represented a dramatic transformation of becoming from an ardent communist a revolutionary leader of the 1956 Revolution, and consequently a national hero and martyr of the cause of freedom. But there is no agreement among the many authors, former friends, political acquaintances and fellow revolutionaries regarding the precise impact of historical and political events in his life and in the era of the1950s on his political conviction.
Imre Nagy was born to an ordinary peasant family in 1896, in the peak year of poverty when millions of Hungarians emigrated in the hope of a better
A Plan of the investigation
1. Subject of the investigation
How the political thoughts of Imre Nagy did change so fast leading up to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution?
2. Method of investigation
i. Study the history of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. I selected authors who had direct memories of the events and of Imre Nagy. ii. Study various sources on Imre Nagy’s life and political beliefs before and during the Revolution in order to understand his transformation from a dye-hard communist into a national leader and martyr of freedom. iii. Selection of two detailed books on the personal and political factors of his transformation. One is Karl Benzinger’s Imre Nagy, Martyr of the Nation, and the other is Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen. iv. Analyze and compare the pre-1956 and the revolutionary leader Imre Nagy.
B. Summary of evidence
Imre Nagy has been one of the most emblematic personalities in Hungarian history, even in overall retrospect. Accordingly, there are abundant historical studies and interpretations on his political and personal background.
These sources uniformly agree that he represented a dramatic transformation of becoming from an ardent communist a revolutionary leader of the 1956 Revolution, and consequently a national hero and martyr of the cause of freedom. But there is no agreement among the many authors, former friends, political acquaintances and fellow revolutionaries regarding the precise impact of historical and political events in his life and in the era of the1950s on his political conviction.
Imre Nagy was born to an ordinary peasant family in 1896, in the peak year of poverty when millions of Hungarians emigrated in the hope of a better