Rákosi, Mátyás

Rákosi, Mátyás

▪ prime minister of Hungary
born March 14, 1892, Ada, Serbia
died Feb. 5, 1971, Gorky [now Nizhny Novgorod], Russia, U.S.S.R.
 Hungarian Communist ruler of Hungary from 1945 to 1956.

      An adherent of Social Democracy from his youth, Rákosi returned to Hungary a Communist in 1918, after a period as prisoner of war in Russia. He served as commissar for Socialist production in the short-lived Communist regime of Béla Kun (1919) but, with the triumph of counterrevolution in Hungary, was forced to flee to Moscow. Dispatched in 1924 to reorganize the Hungarian Communist Party, he was arrested by the Hungarian authorities the following year and in 1927 was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison from the date of his arrest. Upon the expiration of his term, he was rearrested and sentenced for life (1934) but in 1940 was allowed to go to Moscow. Returning to Hungary with Soviet troops in 1944, Rákosi became secretary of the Hungarian Workers (Communist) Party and, assisted by the newly organized State Security Police (AVO), soon consolidated political power in his hands. A confirmed Stalinist, he reigned supreme as party chief from 1949 to 1953 (from 1952 also as prime minister); but in July 1953, following Stalin's death, he was forced to relinquish the premiership to the reform-minded Imre Nagy. He remained party secretary, however, and in 1955 was able to effect the dismissal of Nagy, only to be removed himself by Moscow from all party offices the following year in order to placate the Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito, whom he had offended. Rákosi's enduring Stalinism and his subservience to Moscow had made him widely unpopular; and, when revolution broke out in Budapest in October 1956, he fled again to the U.S.S.R.

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