1. S. Schattenberg (2006) ‘“Democracy or Despotism”: How the Secret Speech was Translated into Everyday Life’ in Jones Dilemmas p. 65; Jones Myth p. 27; I. Caşu and M. Sandle ‘Discontent and Uncertainty in the Borderland: Soviet Moldavia and the Secret Speech 1956–57’ Europe-Asia Studies vol. 66, no. 4, 2014, p. 620.
2. Zubkova Oshchestvo p. 141; K. E. Loewenstein ‘Re-emergence of Public Opinion in the Soviet Union: Khrushchev and Responses to the Secret Speech’ Europe-Asia Studies vol. 58, no. 8, 2006, p. 1337.
3. Medvedev Khrushchev p. 150; Presidium p. 116. The summary of events in Poland at this time is taken from A. Kemp-Welch ‘Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” and Polish Politics: The Spring of 1956’ Europe-Asia Studies vol. 48, no. 2, 1996, pp. 181–206.
4. For Tito’s arrival, see Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev, p. 147; Medvedev Khrushchev p. 149. Otherwise these events are covered in G. Swain and N. Swain (2009) Eastern Europe since 1945 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 96–7.
5. For the Petőfi Circle, see A. B. Hegedus (1997) ‘The Petőfi Circle: The Forum of Reform in 1956’ in T. Cox (ed.) Hungary 1956 — Forty Years On (London: Frank Cass), pp. 108–33.