Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party

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The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party was the ruling communist party of Hungary during the Cold War, overseeing a one-party socialist state within the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf communist party
political party in Hungary
ruling party
alignedWith Comecon
alliedWith Soviet Union
banned opposition parties
cameToPowerAfter 1956 Hungarian Revolution
controlled Hungarian People's Army
Hungarian government
planned economy of Hungary
state security services of Hungary
country Hungary
dissolved 1989-10-07
dominantPeriod Cold War
firstSecretaryTitle General Secretary
followedBy Hungarian Socialist Party
founded 1956-10-31
governanceModel democratic centralism
governedFrom 1956
governedUntil 1989
headquartersLocation Budapest
ideology Marxism–Leninism
implementedPolicy central planning
collectivization of agriculture in Hungary
goulash communism
limited economic reforms in the 1960s
influencedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
keyLeader Ferenc Münnich
János Kádár
Károly Grósz
languageOfName Hungarian
legalStatus sole legal party
lostPowerDuring fall of communism in Eastern Europe
memberOf Warsaw Pact political system
newspaper Népszabadság
linked to: Pravda
operatedIn People's Republic of Hungary
linked to: Hungary
partOf Eastern Bloc
politicalPosition far-left
precededBy Hungarian Working People's Party
restricted freedom of assembly in Hungary
freedom of speech in Hungary
shortName MSZMP
stateStructure one-party socialist state
supportedBy Soviet military intervention in Hungary
transformedInto Hungarian Socialist Party
usedSymbol hammer and sickle
red star
womenWing Hungarian Women's National Council
youthWing Communist Youth League of Hungary

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Eastern Bloc regimes dominantParty Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party precededBy Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party followedBy Hungarian Socialist Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party transformedInto Hungarian Socialist Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Államvédelmi Hatóság politicalAlignment Hungarian Working People’s Party
subject linked to: Hungarian ÁVH secret police
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Államvédelmi Hatóság politicalAlignment Hungarian Communist Party
subject linked to: Hungarian ÁVH secret police
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Államvédelmi Hatóság subordinateTo Hungarian Communist Party leadership
subject linked to: Hungarian ÁVH secret police
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
János Kádár memberOfPoliticalParty Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
János Kádár memberOfPoliticalParty Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
János Kádár memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of Hungary
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
János Kádár leaderOf Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Ernő Gerő memberOf Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Ernő Gerő memberOf Socialist Workers' Party of Hungary
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Imre Nagy memberOf Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Imre Nagy memberOf Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Cominform memberOrganization Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
MSZMP fullName Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
MSZMP fullNameInEnglish Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
MSZMP precededBy Magyar Dolgozók Pártja
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
MSZMP precededBy Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Women's National Council operatedInPoliticalSystem socialist Hungary
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Women's National Council hadRelationshipWith Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Communist Youth League of Hungary politicalAlignment Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Communist Youth League of Hungary officialYouthWingOf Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Communist Youth League of Hungary controlledBy Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Communist Youth League of Hungary subordinateTo Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Károly Grósz memberOfPoliticalParty Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Károly Grósz affiliation Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party leadership
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Ferenc Münnich politicalParty Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Ferenc Münnich politicalParty Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Ferenc Münnich memberOf Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Political Committee
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian Socialist Party precededBy Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Pál Losonczi memberOf Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Pál Losonczi memberOf Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Mátyás Rákosi government rulingParty Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Giovanni Czermanik memberOf Hungarian Working People’s Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Giovanni Czermanik memberOf Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
New Economic Mechanism in Hungary governedBy Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Ernő Gerő memberOf Hungarian Working People's Party
subject linked to: Ernő Singer
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Ernő Gerő memberOf Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
subject linked to: Ernő Singer
Ernő Gerő politicalParty Hungarian Working People's Party
subject linked to: Ernő Singer
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Ernő Gerő politicalParty Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
subject linked to: Ernő Singer
First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party partOf Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party roleIn Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party positionHeldInOrganization Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Mátyás Rákosi memberOfPoliticalParty Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Mátyás Rákosi employedBy Hungarian Working People's Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
New Course policy influenced Hungarian reform communist movement
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian People’s Army subordinateTo Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party leadership
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungarian People’s Army politicalControlBy Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party
linked to: Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party