Hungarian Working People's Party
| Hungarian Working People's Party | |
|---|---|
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| founding | June 12, 1948 |
| resolution | October 31, 1956 |
| Headquarters | 1056. Budapest, Akadémia utca 17 |
| Youth organization | Hungarian Communist Youth Association ( Magyar Kommunista Ifjúsági Szövetség, KISZ ) |
| newspaper | Szabad Nép |
| Alignment |
Marxism-Leninism , Communism |
| International connections | Information Office of the Communist and Workers' Parties ( "Cominform" ) |
The Hungarian Working People's Party ( Hungarian Magyar Dolgozók Pártja , or MDP for short ) was a communist party in Hungary after the Second World War . It was the ruling party of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1949 to 1956 .
Emergence
prehistory
The communists received only 16.9% of the vote in the parliamentary elections on November 4, 1945 , the last free election until 1989. Even in the semi-free parliamentary election on August 31, 1947 , they only achieved a share of 22.3% of the vote.
founding
In 1948, the Cominform recommended an association of communists (Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja, KMP) and social democrats to form a joint workers' party. As a result of the pressure of the Soviet occupying power, a union of social democrats and communists was forced against emerging resistance and on June 12, 1948 the MDP was formed. Social Democrats who opposed unification were persecuted.
Personalities
Árpád Szakasits became MDP chairman . The powerful office of General Secretary of the Central Committee was given to Mátyás Rákosi , under whose leadership Hungary embarked on a course strictly oriented towards the Soviet Union. In July 1956 Rákosi lost his position to Ernő Gerő .
Political leadership of the party
| Term of office | designation | Surname |
|---|---|---|
| 07/1948 - 04/1950 | Chairman | Árpád Szakasits |
| 06/1948 - 06/1953 | General Secretary of the Central Committee | Mátyás Rákosi |
| 06/1953 - 07/1956 | First Secretary of the Central Committee | Mátyás Rákosi |
| 07/1956 - 10/1956 | First Secretary of the Central Committee | Ernő Gerő |
| 10/1956 | First Secretary of the Central Committee | János Kádár |
resolution
During the Hungarian uprising , János Kádár replaced Ernő Gerő on October 25, 1956. On October 30, 1956, Prime Minister Imre Nagy announced the end of the one-party system and the dissolution of the MDP.
The successor to the MDP as the socialist ruling party was taken over by the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt - MSzMP) , which was founded on November 1, 1956 after the end of the Hungarian uprising .
See also
- History of Hungary 1945 to 1989
- Hungarian popular uprising
- Parliamentary election in Hungary in 1945
- Parliamentary election in Hungary in 1947
- Parliamentary election in Hungary in 1949
- On the development of Hungary in the 1950s
- Overview of known members of the MDP
literature
- Andreas Schmidt-Schweizer: The State Party in Hungary (1944–1989). From vassal of Moscow to the pioneer of system transformation. In: Uwe Backes , Günther Heydemann , Clemens Vollnhals (eds.): State socialisms in comparison. State Party - Social Policy - Opposition (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . 64). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-37077-3 , pp. 191-207.
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Dieringer : The political system of the Republic of Hungary. Origin, development, Europeanization. Budrich, Opladen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86649-268-4 , p. 70 ( limited preview in Google book search).