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The Hungarian People's Republic (Hungarian: Magyar Népköztársaság) was a one-party socialist state from 20 August 1949 to 23 October 1989. It was governed by the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, which was under the influence of the Soviet Union.
End of Communism In Hungary. Communist rule in the People's Republic of Hungary came to an end in 1989 by a peaceful transition to a democratic system. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was suppressed by Soviet forces, Hungary remained a communist country. As the Soviet Union weakened at the end of the 1980s, the Eastern Bloc disintegrated.
The Hungarian People's Republic ( Hungarian: Magyar Népköztársaság) was a one-party socialist state from 20 August 1949 to 23 October 1989. It was governed by the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, which was under the influence of the Soviet Union.
Learn about the history of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (HSWP) and its leader János Kádár, who introduced Goulash Communism after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Find out how the HSWP remained a loyal member of the Soviet Bloc and relied on Western loans to finance material incentives.
The new constitution—which transformed the communist-inspired “People’s Republic” into the “Republic of Hungary” and which was promulgated on October 23, 1989, the 33rd anniversary of the Revolution of 1956—was based on the principle of the separation of legislative, executive, and judicial powers and also included guarantees of ...
The Hungarian Republic founded in 1849 was the first in Eastern Europe. It had to fall. But now Hungary has again returned to the noble traditions of its past and the young Hungarian Republic turns to all the free peoples of the world with an appeal for support in the hard task of reorganizing Hungary. The sins of the former Governments make this
