1956년 헝가리 혁명에 대한 일 고찰

A Study on Hungarian Revolution of 1956

The Hungarian revolution of 1956 proved to be a watershed in the country's post-World War II history. If forced Hungarians to take more realistic stock of themselves and taught them that they would be unable to count on assistance from any quarter in their fight for independence. On the other hand, it also taught the USSR that the Hungarians could not be kept with impunity in the same state of abject suppression as their own people. Through that dual lesson, and the deliberately pragmatic programme that Kadar based on it, there emerged over time a distinctively "Hungarian model" of politics which, without ever threatening the Soviet Union's great power interests or its fundamental one-party state principles, allowed Hungary to establish a milieu which, while it may have been truly liked by few, was at least accepted by almost all citizens as the best they could get. In this sense the 1956 revolution was no failure because, like the Rakoczi and independence war of 1848-49, it greatly improved the terms of which the subsequent compromise was struck. The most important result of the Hungarian revolution of 1956 is that this event became the gauge of the reforms in modern Hungarian history. Nowadays the worth of Hungarian Revolution is enlightened by it's successor like Orban Victor as a 'Reformist Prime Minister'.