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Hungary and Suez, 1956: The Limits of Soviet and American Power

In the autumn of 1956, the Soviet-American hegemony over the international order that had emerged from World War II was severely shaken. Each Great Power was defied by its allies: the Soviet Union by Poland and Hungary; the United States by Great Britain and France. Each attempted to quell this defiance and succeeded in the end. The paradox was that, notwithstanding public rhetoric criticizing their rival's actions, both countries found themselves powerless to act in their rival's sphere of influence. And rather than be drawn into a war over an area they had no prospect of controlling, each ended up aiding the other's attempts to rein in its allies by either passive acquiescence or more active measures. The result was a reinforcement of the Soviet-American bi-polar order, which was to continue unchallenged for at least another decade. In Eastern Europe, the Soviet interpretation of the concept of 'different roads to socialism' recognized by Khrushchev during his visit to Yugoslavia in 1955 was shown to be narrowly restrictive. Moscow's hegemony over its East European satellites was reconfirmed with the first use of what later became known as the Brezhnev Doctrine.' In the Middle East, the last vestiges of French and British colonial domination were destroyed and replaced by a burgeoning Soviet-American rivalry for influence. The area was becoming too important economically and strategically for the United States and the Soviet Union to stand on the sidelines any longer. With the assistance of newly-acquired documents from the Department of State through the Freedom of Information Act, and