Foreword by the President of the Hungarian Republic / László Sólyom -- Introduction: Hungary: upheaval in the empire / Henry A. Kissinger -- Pt. 1. East Central Europe and Hungary in the 1950s. Stalin's legacy: the Soviet-dominated regimes in Hungary and East Central Europe, 1953-1959 / Bennett Kovrig ; Imre Nagy's first government, 1953-1955 / Lajos Izsák ; Poland and Hungary in 1956 / Jnos Tischler ; Romania and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution / Zoltn Szász ; Hungarian-Yugoslav relations, 1948-1956 / József Marelyin Kiss, Zoltn Ripp and Istvn Vida ; Yugoslav diplomacy and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 / Milan èahović ; On the boundary of two worlds: Austrian-Hungarian relations, 1948-1965 / Lajos Gecsényi -- Pt. II. The revolution in Hungary: the events of October 23-30. The sixteen-point program and demonstrations in its support / Jnos M. Rainer ; The demonstrations become a revolution / Miklós Horváth ; Imre Nagy's second government / György Litvn -- Pt. III. The role of various segments of Hungarian society. The intellectuals / George Gömöri, editor ; A) The poetic reception of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 / George Gömöri ; B) Selected poems ; C) The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Istvn Bibó's analysis / Károly Nagy ; 1956 - the workers / BIll Lomax ; General characteristics of freedom-fighter groups / Miklós Horváth ; The people of the countryside / Attila Szakolczai ; The armed forces / József Ferenc Holló -- Pt. IV. The second Soviet aggression: the first war between Socialist states. Introduction / Miklós Horváth ; The fighting of the National Guard against overwhelming odds / Béla K. Király ; Losses of life in the war and during the reprisals / Miklós Horváth -- Pt. V. The responses of the outside world. Policies of the USA, Great Britain and France in 1956 / Csaba Békés ; The United Nations organization and the Hungarian Revolution / Béla K. Király ; The North Atlantic Treat Organization and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 / Gusztáv D. Kecskés ; Thirteen days that shook the world: the Hungarian Revolution and foreign intellectuals / Lee Congdon, editor ; A) Introduction / Lee Congdon ; B) The opinions of leading non-Hungarian intellectuals. Kádár and his day of fear / Albert Camus ; The truth about the Nagy affair / Albert Camus ; The ghost of Stalin / Jean-Paul Sartre ; The meaning of destiny / Raymond Aron ; Reflections on the Hungarian Revolution / Hannah Arendt ; The Hungarian source / Cornelius Castoriadis ; The bridge at Andau / James A. Michener ; The storm in Eastern Europe / Milovan Djilas ; The actions of the Hungarian exiles / Károly Nagy, editor ; A) Hungarian emigrants and the revolution / Gyula Borbndi ; B) "History-makers testify": Tanúk - Korukról: the oral history program of the Hungarian Alumni Association at Rutgers University / Károly Nagy ; C) Hungarian students in the new world / László Papp ; D) Hungarian Studies Association / Susan Glanz ; E) With the ideas of the revolution in Asia in 1961 / Béla K. Király -- Pt. VI. Imre Nagy. Imre Nagy - leader and martyr of 1956 / Jnos M. Rainer -- Pt. VII. Victory in defeat. 1956: the Hungarian Revolution and War for Independence in historical perspective / Béla K. Király ; The final victory of the ideas of 1956: constitutional regime change in Hungary, accession to NATO and the EU / Mihály Bihari -- Appendices. I. The ideas of the revolution: the Sixteen points of the Revolutionary Hungarian Youth ; II. Victory of the revolution ; III. Imre Nagy announces the Soviet attack on the capital on November 4 to overthrow the legal Hungarian Democratic Government ; IV. Istvn Bibó, Minister of State: Message to President Eisenhower ; V. Workers' and writers' actions ; VI. Radio announcement of the Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government ; VII. The Resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations on the establishment of a Special Committee on the Hungarian problem ; VIII. Conclusions of the Special Committee of the UN on the Hungarian Revolution ; IX. Resolution 1133 (XI): Question considered by the Second Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly from 4 to 10 November 1956 ; X. Law on the COmmemoration of the Revolution and Fight for Freedom of 1956, 1990 ; XI. The speech of Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, in the Hungarian Parliament, November 11, 1992 ; XII. Statistics of Hungarians living abroad ; XIII. The speech of George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, on the Gellért Hill, June 22, 2006 -- Epilogue by the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences / Sylvester Vizi -- Biographies of key personalities.