Abstract
Czechoslovakia’s attitude to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 is a little-known story, even if there have been a few works on the subject in the last three decades. However, these papers have presented either exclusively the reaction of Czechoslovak (Prague) or Slovak (Bratislava) political leaders to the events. This study promises more than that. It is the first attempt to present, in a complex way, not only the documents of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) and Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS), but also the documents of the Czechoslovak Peo- ple’s Army, the Interior Ministry and the economic documents, in order to show how Czechoslovakia reacted to the Hungarian Revolution and how it helped the Hungarian government headed by János Kádár, which was formed after the suppression of the Revolution, in the process of consolidation. The aim of this paper is to provide a synthesis of thousands of pages of documents from the archives of Prague and Bratislava relating to the events of the Hungarian Revolution and to answer the question of the role played by the Czechoslovak political, military, interior and economic leadership in the Hungarian events.
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