719. Revolution in the Soviet Empire: The Hungarian Uprising (Part 1)

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open a two-part series on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The episode asks what actually triggered the uprising, and whether Stalinism remained the dominant political force in Hungary even after the paranoid dictator's death. Running through it is the larger question of how a national revolt in a Soviet satellite came close to bringing down the Soviet Empire at the peak of the Cold War.