Imre Nagy
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BIOGRAPHY OF A HERO OF THE COLD WAR
IMRE NAGY
Carlos Mayans Torres
Imre Nagy was an Hungarian communist politician who starred in the attempt to restore the democracy and liberate the countryfrom the Soviet tutelage in 1956. He was born in 1896 at Kaposvár in Southern Hungary and was a son of a poor peasant family. During the First World War (1914-18) he fought with the Austro-hungarianarmy and was taken prisoner by the Russians and kept to that country. When he was there, he knew and participated into the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and he became a communist militant.
After the war,he came back to Hungary (it was already independent again) and he occupied a modest place in the revolution of Bela Kun (1919) and set out to extend the underground Communist organization, butgovernment’s repression led him into exile again in the Soviet Union (1929).
He did not return to Hungary until the end of the World War II (1939-1945) and the Soviet army occupied the country in itsprogress against Nazi Germany. He agreed the coalition government implanted in Hungary, occupying the Ministries of Agriculture (1944) and Interior (1945), but was dismissed in 1946 for his opposition toforced collectivization and his tolerance to the political dissident people. After the establishment of a communist regime supported by the Soviet Union (1949), he represented the reformist line withinthe Hungarian Socialist Workers Party (communist). The failure of the economic policy inspired by Stalin returned him to the government in 1951, and Stalin’s death allowed him to direct the openingof the Hungarian regime as the leader of the government between 1953 and 1955.
Nagy began the liberalization of the communist autocracy and the reorientation of the socialist economy towards a greaterrole for the market, the small property and consumer goods. The Stalinist “old guard” overthrew him in 1955 despite its popularity, but had to be called back to power to calm the masses during the...
IMRE NAGY
Carlos Mayans Torres
Imre Nagy was an Hungarian communist politician who starred in the attempt to restore the democracy and liberate the countryfrom the Soviet tutelage in 1956. He was born in 1896 at Kaposvár in Southern Hungary and was a son of a poor peasant family. During the First World War (1914-18) he fought with the Austro-hungarianarmy and was taken prisoner by the Russians and kept to that country. When he was there, he knew and participated into the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and he became a communist militant.
After the war,he came back to Hungary (it was already independent again) and he occupied a modest place in the revolution of Bela Kun (1919) and set out to extend the underground Communist organization, butgovernment’s repression led him into exile again in the Soviet Union (1929).
He did not return to Hungary until the end of the World War II (1939-1945) and the Soviet army occupied the country in itsprogress against Nazi Germany. He agreed the coalition government implanted in Hungary, occupying the Ministries of Agriculture (1944) and Interior (1945), but was dismissed in 1946 for his opposition toforced collectivization and his tolerance to the political dissident people. After the establishment of a communist regime supported by the Soviet Union (1949), he represented the reformist line withinthe Hungarian Socialist Workers Party (communist). The failure of the economic policy inspired by Stalin returned him to the government in 1951, and Stalin’s death allowed him to direct the openingof the Hungarian regime as the leader of the government between 1953 and 1955.
Nagy began the liberalization of the communist autocracy and the reorientation of the socialist economy towards a greaterrole for the market, the small property and consumer goods. The Stalinist “old guard” overthrew him in 1955 despite its popularity, but had to be called back to power to calm the masses during the...
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