A revolution’s life after death. On Wiktor Woroszylski’s Hungarian Diary from the perspective of “history incessant in its movement” Cover Image

Pośmiertne życie rewolucji. O Dzienniku węgierskim Wiktora Woroszylskiego z perspektywy „nieustającej w swym ruchu historii”
A revolution’s life after death. On Wiktor Woroszylski’s Hungarian Diary from the perspective of “history incessant in its movement”

Author(s): Agata Stankowska
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Recent History (1900 till today), Hungarian Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne
Keywords: Hungarian October; Wiktor Woroszylski; diary; war correspondence; comment;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the Hungarian revolution in 1956, witnessed and described by Wiktor Woroszylski in his Hungarian diary. His report from the fighting Budapest is as important as the comments added in 1976, 1981, 1986, and 1989, the milestones of the Polish way to freedom, described by one of its participants. In the comments, Woroszylski creates a vision of “history incessant in its movement”, marked by hope and disappointment. The author points out to similarities and relationships between freedom uprisings in various Soviet-dominated countries of Central Europe.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 179-193
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish