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Also Prime Minister (1952–1953) 28 June 1953: 18 July 1956 First Secretary 2 Ernő Gerő (1898–1980) 18 July 1956 25 October 1956 99 days 3 János Kádár (1912–1989) 25 October 1956 30/31 October 1956: 31 years, 210 days Also Prime Minister (1956–1958 and 1961–1965) (3) 1 November 1956: 28 March 1985: MSZMP: 28 March 1985: 22 May 1988
Prime Minister Imre Nagy is head of the government, 27 October 1956. The new communist government of Prime Minister Imre Nagy was surprised by the rapidity with which the Hungarian Revolution extended from the streets of Budapest to all of Hungary, and the consequent collapse of the old Gerő–Hegedüs communist government.
In 1956 Nagy became leader of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 against the Soviet-backed government, for which he was sentenced to death and executed two years later. He was not related to previous agrarianist Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy. Born to a peasant family, Nagy was apprenticed as a locksmith before being drafted in World War I.
This article lists the prime ministers of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország miniszterelnöke, lit. ' minister-president ') from when the first Prime Minister (in the modern sense), Lajos Batthyány, took office in 1848 (during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848) until the present day. The prime minister is head of the Government of Hungary.
After the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution on 23 October 1956, Nagy was reinstated as prime minister the next day as a result of intense popular demand. As the Revolution progressed his government made moves towards a multi-party system , admitting non-Communist politicians to power and reforming the ruling Hungarian Working People's Party ...
Mátyás Rákosi ([ˈraːkoʃi ˈmaːcaːʃ]; born Mátyás Rosenfeld; 9 March 1892 [1] [2] – 5 February 1971 [3]) was a Hungarian communist politician who was the de facto leader of Hungary from 1947 to 1956.
Listed below are some significant events in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, which began on October 23, 1956, and was brutally crushed by Soviet forces in November.. On October 22 - one day before the Revolution - Technical University students established the "Association of Hungarian University and College Students" (MEFESZ), expressed their famous 16 claims and organized a rally to the ...
It proved to be the start of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. As the revolution spread throughout the country, Nagy was called back as Prime Minister. [54] The Hungarian Working People's Party decided to dissolve itself and to reorganize itself as the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. On 25 October 1956, Kádár was elected General Secretary.