Keywords

• Snagovi jegyzetek
• the «Notes from Snagov» by Imre Nagy
• the symbolic figure in the 1956 insurrection
• are neither memorial nor political testament
• but a study of the uprisingâ€
• ™
• s causes
• its particular features
• and its repression. Imre Nagy rejects the charge of counter-revolution made against him by the regime
• and asserts the revolutionary nature of the events that occurred in Hungary between October and November 1956
• when he was Prime Minister.
• He defends the political reforms that he carried out in the period of his first premiership (1953-1955)
• and explains his point of view on the most important topics that marked the insurrection: the achievement of political pluralism in Hungary
• the declaration of neutrality
• and Soviet military intervention in the country. The study was written in Snagov (Romania) between late November 1956 and mid-March 1957