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High National Council
The High National Council ( hu, Nemzeti Főtanács) was the collective head of state of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1945 until 1946. Members of the First High National Council (January 26, 1945–December 7, 1945) Parties Members of the Second High National Council (December 7, 1945–February 1, 1946) Parties See also *List of heads of state of Hungary This article lists the heads of state of Hungary, from the Hungarian Declaration of Independence and the establishment of the Hungarian State in 1849 (during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848) until the present day. The current head of state of H ... SourcesWorld Statesmen - Hungary {{DEFAULTSORT:High National Council Politics of Hungary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Vietnam
South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War after the 1954 Geneva Conference, 1954 division of Vietnam. It first received Diplomatic recognition, international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon (renamed to Ho Chi Minh City in 1976), before becoming a republic in 1955. South Vietnam was bordered by North Vietnam to the north, Kingdom of Laos, Laos to the northwest, Khmer Republic, Cambodia to the southwest, and Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest. Its sovereignty was recognized by the United States and 87 other nations, though it failed to gain admission into the United Nations as a result of a Soviet veto in 1957. It was succeeded by the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Rajk
László Rajk (8 March 1909 – 15 October 1949) was a Hungarian Communist politician, who served as Minister of Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was an important organizer of the Hungarian Communists' power (for example, organizing the State Protection Authority (ÁVH)), but he eventually fell victim to Mátyás Rákosi's show trials. Background Born in Székelyudvarhely, the ninth of eleven children in a family of Transylvanian Saxons, his ties to Communism began at an early age when he became a member of the Communist Party of Hungary (KMP). Later he was expelled from his university for his political ideas and would become a building worker, until 1936 when he joined the Popular Front in the Spanish Civil War. He became commissar of the Rakosi Battalion of XIII International Brigade. After the collapse of Republican Spain, he was interned in France until 1941, when he was finally able to return to Hungary, where he became Secretary of the Communist Party C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Nagy
Ferenc Nagy (; 8 October 1903 – 12 June 1979) was a Hungarian politician of the Smallholders Party who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1946 until his forced resignation in 1947. He was also a Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary and a member of the High National Council from 1945 to 1946. Nagy was the second democratically elected prime minister of Hungary, and would be the last until 1990 not to be a Communist or fellow traveler. The subsequent Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy was unrelated to him. A longtime peasant advocate who took part in the anti-fascist resistance, Nagy attempted to consolidate democratic rule during his brief tenure as Prime Minister at the head of a grand coalition of Smallholders, Communists, and Social Democrats. However, he was ultimately unable to resist the intrigues of the Soviet-backed Hungarian Communist Party, which subverted his rule and destroyed his party's elected majority through a fabricated conspiracy. A co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagy Ferenc-MTI 1946
Nagy () is the most common Hungarian surname, meaning "great". The surname is also common among ethnic Hungarians in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, where it is spelled Nađ () and may be transliterated in other languages as Nadj. In Romania, the name Nagy is sometimes rendered as Naghi. Nagyová is a Czech-language and Slovak-language feminine surname derived from the Hungarian surname Nagy according to the rules of Czech name formation. It is transliterated into Russian and Ukrainian as Надь and rendered in English as Nad. Given name Notable people with the given name include: * Nagy Aguilera (born 1968), Dominican Republic boxer * Nagy Habib (born 1952), Egyptian professor, surgeon Surname Notable people with the surname include: * Ádám Nagy (born 1995), Hungarian football player * Andrea Nagy (born 1971), Hungarian basketball player * Andrej Prean Nagy (born 1923), Hungarian footballer * Adrienn Nagy (born 2001), Hungarian tennis player * Anikó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers And Civic Party
The Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party ( hu, Független Kisgazda-, Földmunkás- és Polgári Párt), known mostly by its acronym FKgP or its shortened form Independent Smallholders' Party ( hu, Független Kisgazdapárt), is a political party in Hungary. Since the 2002 parliamentary elections, the party has won no seats. History Founded on 12 October 1930, the party was one of the largest anti-fascist opposition parties in the 1930s and during World War II. Representing the interests of landed peasants along with some poor peasants and urban middle class, it advocated for land reform and democratization. Its members opposed Hungary's participation in World War II, giving anti-fascist speeches in Parliament and leading rallies as late as 1943. During the German occupation of Hungary, its members took part in the clandestine anti-fascist resistance movement, and played a major role in the provisional government established in the Soviet-occupied zone of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mátyás Rákosi
Mátyás Rákosi (; born Mátyás Rosenfeld; 9 March 1892 – 5 February 1971) was a Hungarian politician who was the ''de facto'' leader of Hungary from 1947 to 1956. He served first as of the Hungarian Communist Party from 1945 to 1948 and then as General Secretary (later renamed First Secretary) of the Hungarian Working People's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
József Révai
József Révai (born József Lederer'';'' 12 October 1898 in Budapest – 4 August 1959 in Budapest) was a Hungarian communist politician, statesman and cultural ideologue. Life and career Révai was born to a Jewish family.Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945–56, 2012, , p. 144 He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Hungary ''(Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja; KMP)'' in 1918. Révai lived in the Soviet Union between 1934 and 1944. From 11 May to 27 September 1945 he was a member of the High National Council, and between 1945 and 1950 he was chief editor of ''Szabad Nép'' ("Free People"). Révai controlled all aspects of Hungary's cultural life from 1948 until 1953; from 1949 he was also the Minister of Culture. After 1953 his influence decreased. Between 1945–1956 he was a member of the Central Committee of his party, which was renamed in 1948 to Hungarian Working People's Party ''(Magyar Dolgozók Pártja; MDP)'' after me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
