biography
pronunciation:
[kahda(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1912–89)
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| biography:
| Hungarian statesman, premier (1956–8, 1961–5) and first secretary (1956–88), born in Kapoly, WC Hungary. He joined the (illegal) Communist Party in 1931, and was arrested several times. He became a member of the Central Committee (1942) and the Politburo (1945), and minister of the interior (1949), but was arrested for anti-Stalinist views (1951–3). When the anti-Soviet uprising broke out in 1956, he was a member of the ‘national’ government of Imre Nagy, but then formed a puppet government which repressed the uprising. He resigned in 1958, becoming premier again in 1961. His long reign as Party secretary ended in 1988, when he stepped down as leader, and was given the new titular post of Party president. He was removed from this position shortly before his death. |
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