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Before the revolution
Rákosi regime 1948-53
We are in the Eastern block.
Rebuilding the country after WW2 and loss
1953: Stalin dies
First Nagy Imre-government: improvements and reforms starting
Soviet influence
Confiscation and redistribution
Dictatorship, personal cult of Stalin and Rákosi
Secret police (ÁVH) - being observed by anyone anywhere
Iron curtain
Censorship
22nd October 1956: demonstrations in solidarity with Polish workers
October 1956
Soviet troops entering
Uprising, fights in Budapest
Revenge on ÁVH officers (Köztársaság tér)
Nagy Imre goverment signs truce with revolutionary troops
1956
Revolution and War of Independence, Hungary
Government and Revolution fighters together against the Soviets (Corvin köz, Széna tér etc.)
November 1956
Soviet intervention - fights in Budapest and many places in Hungary between Soviet Troops and Hungarian freedom fighters
Aims of the new Nagy Imre government
No international help
Soviet troops out of Hungary, free independent country out of the Warsaw pact
János Kádár announced as prime minister with Soviet support
Amnesty, old symbols rehabilited (eg. Heraldics)
Plural party system, free elections
Effects
Migration to the West (200 000 people)
Imre Nagy was executed, along with Pál Maléter and Miklós Gimes
Brutal reprisals (400 people executed, 21.000 sent to prison)