Hungarian Working People's Party
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Hungarian Working People's Party Magyar Dolgozók Pártja | |
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First leader | Mátyás Rákosi |
Last leader | János Kádár |
Founded | 12 June 1948 |
Dissolved | 31 October 1956 |
Merger of | MKP MSZDP |
Succeeded by | MSZMP |
Newspaper | Szabad Nép |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left |
National affiliation | Patriotic People's Front |
International affiliation | Cominform (1948-1956) |
Party flag | |
The Hungarian Working People's Party (Hungarian: Magyar Dolgozók Pártja, abbr. MDP) was the ruling communist party of Hungary from 1948 to 1956.
It was formed by a merger of the
During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the party was reorganized into the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) by a circle of communists around Kádár and Imre Nagy. The new government of Nagy declared to assess the uprising not as counter-revolutionary but as a "great, national and democratic event" and to dissolve State Security Police (ÁVH). Hungary's declaration to become neutral and to exit the Warsaw Pact caused the second Soviet intervention on 4 November 1956. After 8 November 1956, the MSZMP, under Kádár's leadership, fully supported the Soviet Union.
Leaders of the Hungarian Working People's Party
General/First Secretaries
No. | Picture | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of Office | Position(s) | |
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1 | Mátyás Rákosi (1892–1971) |
12 June 1948 | 18 July 1956 | General Secretary | |
First Secretary (from 28 June 1953) | |||||
2 | Ernő Gerő (1898–1980) |
18 July 1956 | 25 October 1956 | ||
3 | János Kádár (1912–1989) |
25 October 1956 | 31 October 1956 |
Chairman
No. | Picture | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of Office | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Árpád Szakasits (1888–1965) |
12 June 1948 | 24 April 1950 | Also President (1948–1949) and Chairman of the Presidential Council (1949–1950) |
Electoral history
National Assembly elections
Election | Party leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Position | Government |
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1949 | Mátyás Rákosi | as part of Patriotic People's Front | 285 / 402
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285 | 1st | Sole legal party | |
1953 | 206 / 298
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79 | 1st | Sole legal party |
See also
References
- ^ Neubauer, John, and Borbála Zsuzsanna Török. The Exile and Return of Writers from East-Central Europe: A Compendium. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. p. 140