Fejto, Francois, A History of the People’s Democracies , [1969], 2nd edn, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1974, pp. 565 Examines destalinization in Poland and why the Polish 1956 uprising avoided bloodshed, making comparisons with Hungary and its 1956 Revolution, see pp. 79-80 and 87-123. These events are set in the wider context of Soviet and bloc politics.