If I may ask, why did you specifically choose the invasion of Hungary as turning point? Just because it generally "fits" with the time of the change within the left, or because there was some change within the left specifically in reaction to this specific event? I cannot think of any, but you could surely tell me if there did occur such...
1956 was the year that the illusions among those in Western communist parties were more or less shattered about the nature of the Soviet Union. That, plus the reconciliation of social democracy to capitalism more or less during the same period makes it a good marker, in my opinion, although I personally would contend that World War II pretty much ended the Old Left
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