The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People’s Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. The revolt began as a student protest, which attracted thousands as they marched through central Budapest to the Hungarian Parliament building. On 4 November, a large Soviet force invaded Budapest and other regions of the country. The Hungarian resistance continued until 10 November. Over 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops were killed in the conflict, and 200,000 Hungarians fled as refugees.
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People’s Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. Leaderless at the beginning, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the Red Army drove Nazi Germany from its territory at the End of World War II in Europe. The revolt began as a student protest, which attracted thousands as they marched through central Budapest to the Hungarian Parliament building. As the news spread, disorder and violence erupted throughout the capital. Thousands organised themselves into militias, battling the ÁVH and Soviet troops. On 4 November, a large Soviet force invaded Budapest and other regions of the country. The Hungarian resistance continued until 10 November. Over 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops were killed in the conflict, and 200,000 Hungarians fled as refugees. By January 1957, the new Soviet-installed government had suppressed all public opposition. These Soviet actions, while strengthening control over the Eastern Bloc, alienated many Western Marxists, leading to splits andor considerable losses of membership for communist parties in capitalist states. Some workers continued fighting in opposition to both the Stalinist regime and the appearances of ‘bourgeois’ parties in its wake. The brief period of multi-party democracy came to an end when the Communist Party merged with the Social Democratic Party to become the Hungarian Working People Party. The People’s Republic of Hungary was then declared a radical national socialist state under the leadership of Mátyk Rákosi. Under the authoritarian leadership of Ráksosi, the government purged the government of its socialist policies.
The revolution set off a chain of events leading directly to the revolution. By 22 October 1956, students had resurrected the banned MEFESZ student and technical union, staged a demonstration on 23 October and staged a rally at Technical University of Budapest that set the stage for the uprising. In 1949, the Working People’s Party set about to modify the economy by undertaking the model based on the Sovietization of the economy. In 1952, a series of series of events led to the overthrow of the government, with the first being the murder of the prime minister, Zoltán Tildy. In 1953, the Hungarian Communist Party, a Marxist–Leninist group who shared the Soviet government’s ideological beliefs, constantly wrested small concessions in a process named salami tactics, which sliced away the elected government’s influence, despite the fact that it had received only 17% of the vote. After the elections of 1945, the portfolio of the Interior Ministry, which oversaw the Hungarian State Security Police, was transferred from the Independent Smallholders Party to a nominee of the Communist party. In 1954, the Socialist Party of Hungary became the People’s Socialist Party, which stood unopposed in the 1949 elections. In 1956, the Communist Parties of Hungary and the Socialist Workers’ Party merged, becoming the Hungarian Socialist Party and the Hungarian Workers’ and Soldiers’ Party. In 1957, the new government of Imre Nagy declared its intention to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and pledged to re-establish free elections.
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