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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A" title="ماتياش راكوشي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ماتياش راكوشي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matya%C5%9F_Rako%C5%9Fi" title="Matyaş Rakoşi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Matyaş Rakoşi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF" title="মাতিয়াস রাকোসি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মাতিয়াস রাকোসি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8C%D1%8F%D1%88_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%88%D1%8B" title="Мацьяш Ракашы – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Мацьяш Ракашы" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8F%D1%88_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%88%D1%8B" title="Мацяш Ракашы – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Мацяш Ракашы" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B4_%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C" title="ماتیاش راکوشی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ماتیاش راکوشی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9D%BC%EC%BD%94%EC%8B%9C_%EB%A7%88%EC%B0%A8%EC%8B%9C" title="라코시 마차시 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="라코시 마차시" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B7_%D5%8C%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%B8%D5%B7%D5%AB" title="Մատյաշ Ռակոշի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մատյաշ Ռակոշի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A9_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%99" title="מתיאש ראקושי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מתיאש ראקושי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%8F%D1%88_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8" title="Матьяш Ракоши – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Матьяш Ракоши" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%8F%D1%88" title="Ракоши Матьяш – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Ракоши Матьяш" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A1kosi_M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s" title="Rákosi Mátyás – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Rákosi Mátyás" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%9C%D0%B0%D1%88_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8" title="Маќаш Ракоши – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Маќаш Ракоши" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%89" title="ماتياش راكوشى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ماتياش راكوشى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B4_%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C" title="ماتیاش راکوشی – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="ماتیاش راکوشی" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5" title="ラーコシ・マーチャーシュ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ラーコシ・マーチャーシュ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Mátyás Rákosi – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Mátyás Rákosi" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Mátyás Rákosi</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi_General_Secretary_of_the_Hungarian_Communist_Party_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi_General_Secretary_of_the_Hungarian_Communist_Party_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi_General_Secretary_of_the_Hungarian_Communist_Party_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" 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class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Working_People%27s_Party" title="Hungarian Working People's Party">Hungarian Working People's Party</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />23 February 1945 – 18 July 1956</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Office Established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ern%C5%91_Ger%C5%91" title="Ernő Gerő">Ernő Gerő</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Prime Ministers of Hungary">Chairman</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Ministers_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary">Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />14 August 1952 – 4 July 1953</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Chairman of the Presidential Council</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Dobi" title="István Dobi">István Dobi</a><br /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Dobi" title="István Dobi">István Dobi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Imre_Nagy" title="Imre Nagy">Imre Nagy</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Hungary" title="Prime Minister of Hungary">Prime Minister of Hungary</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Acting</b></span><br />31 May 1947 – 31 May 1947</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Tildy" title="Zoltán Tildy">Zoltán Tildy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Nagy" title="Ferenc Nagy">Ferenc Nagy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lajos_Dinny%C3%A9s" title="Lajos Dinnyés">Lajos Dinnyés</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>Acting</b></span><br />1 February 1946 – 4 February 1946</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Tildy" title="Zoltán Tildy">Zoltán Tildy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Tildy" title="Zoltán Tildy">Zoltán Tildy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Nagy" title="Ferenc Nagy">Ferenc Nagy</a> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; ;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Additional positions</div></th> </tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/High_National_Council" title="High National Council">High National Council</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />27 September 1945 – 7 December 1945<div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.1em">Serving with <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Mikl%C3%B3s" title="Béla Miklós">Béla Miklós</a> and <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Zsed%C3%A9nyi" title="Béla Zsedényi">Béla Zsedényi</a></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_R%C3%A9vai" title="József Révai">József Révai</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>Second High National Council</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Tildy" title="Zoltán Tildy">Zoltán Tildy</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Ferenc Nagy </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Varga_(politician)" title="Béla Varga (politician)">Béla Varga</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Rajk" title="László Rajk">László Rajk</a> </li></ul> </div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Deputy Prime Minister</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />4 February 1946 – 14 August 1952<div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.1em">Serving with <a href="/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_Szakasits" title="Árpád Szakasits">Árpád Szakasits</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(to 5 August 1948)</span></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Ferenc Nagy<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div>Lajos Dinnyés<div style="clear:both;" class=""></div>István Dobi</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jen%C5%91_Sz%C3%B6ll%C5%91si&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jenő Szöllősi (page does not exist)">Jenő Szöllősi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>List</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Ernő Gerő </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_H%C3%A1zi" title="Árpád Házi">Árpád Házi</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0">Imre Nagy </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/K%C3%A1roly_Kiss" title="Károly Kiss">Károly Kiss</a> </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Hidas" title="István Hidas">István Hidas</a> </li></ul> </div> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Mátyás Rosenfeld</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1892-03-09</span>)</span>9 March 1892<br /><a href="/wiki/Ada,_Serbia" title="Ada, Serbia">Ada</a>, <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A1cs-Bodrog_County" title="Bács-Bodrog County">Bács-Bodrog County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary" title="Kingdom of Hungary">Kingdom of Hungary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austria-Hungary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">5 February 1971<span style="display:none">(1971-02-05)</span> (aged 78)<br /><a href="/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod" title="Nizhny Novgorod">Gorky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russian SFSR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Farkasr%C3%A9ti_Cemetery" title="Farkasréti Cemetery">Farkasréti Cemetery</a>, Budapest</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">Hungarian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Working_People%27s_Party" title="Hungarian Working People's Party">MDP</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Hungary" title="Social Democratic Party of Hungary">MSZDP</a> (1910–1918)<br /><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Communist_Party" title="Hungarian Communist Party">MKP</a> (1918–1948)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Fenia Kornilova (1903–1980)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:R%C3%A1kosi_M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_al%C3%A1%C3%ADr%C3%A1sa.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mátyás Rákosi's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/R%C3%A1kosi_M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_al%C3%A1%C3%ADr%C3%A1sa.svg/128px-R%C3%A1kosi_M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_al%C3%A1%C3%ADr%C3%A1sa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="23" class="mw-file-element" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Flag_of_Austria-Hungary_%281867%E2%80%931918%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria-Hungary_%281867%E2%80%931918%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Flag_of_Austria-Hungary_%281867%E2%80%931918%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria-Hungary_%281867%E2%80%931918%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austria-Hungary</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Socialist_red_flag.svg/23px-Socialist_red_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Socialist_red_flag.svg/35px-Socialist_red_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Socialist_red_flag.svg/45px-Socialist_red_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Soviet_Republic" title="Hungarian Soviet Republic">Hungarian Soviet Republic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Austrian_Imperial_Standard_-_Infantry_pattern_mix_early_19th_century.svg/17px-Austrian_Imperial_Standard_-_Infantry_pattern_mix_early_19th_century.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Austrian_Imperial_Standard_-_Infantry_pattern_mix_early_19th_century.svg/26px-Austrian_Imperial_Standard_-_Infantry_pattern_mix_early_19th_century.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="Hungarian Red Army">Hungarian Red Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1914–1915<br />1919</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data">Commander of the Red Guard</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><b><a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_I)" title="Eastern Front (World War I)">Eastern Front</a></li></ul> <b><a href="/wiki/Revolutions_and_interventions_in_Hungary_(1918%E2%80%9320)" class="mw-redirect" title="Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–20)">Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–20)</a></b></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mátyás Rákosi</b> (<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="hu-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Hungarian" title="Help:IPA/Hungarian">[ˈraːkoʃi<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈmaːcaːʃ]</a></span>; born <b>Mátyás Rosenfeld</b>; 9 March 1892<sup id="cite_ref-Gábor_Murányi_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gábor_Murányi-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – 5 February 1971<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) was a Hungarian <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a> politician who was the <i>de facto</i> leader of Hungary from 1947 to 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served first as <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="General Secretary">General Secretary</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Communist_Party" title="Hungarian Communist Party">Hungarian Communist Party</a> from 1945 to 1948 and then as General Secretary (later renamed First Secretary) of the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Working_People%27s_Party" title="Hungarian Working People's Party">Hungarian Working People's Party</a> from 1948 to 1956. </p><p>Rákosi had been involved in left-wing politics since his youth, and in 1919 was a leading <a href="/wiki/Commissar" title="Commissar">commissar</a> in the short-lived <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Soviet_Republic" title="Hungarian Soviet Republic">Hungarian Soviet Republic</a>. After the fall of the Communist government, he escaped the country and worked abroad as an agent of the <a href="/wiki/Comintern" class="mw-redirect" title="Comintern">Comintern</a>. He was arrested in 1924 after attempting to return to Hungary and organize the Communist Party underground, and ultimately spent over fifteen years in prison. He became a <a href="/wiki/Cause_c%C3%A9l%C3%A8bre" title="Cause célèbre">cause célèbre</a> in the international Communist movement, and the predominantly Hungarian <a href="/wiki/R%C3%A1kosi_Battalion" title="Rákosi Battalion">Rákosi Battalion</a> of the <a href="/wiki/International_Brigades" title="International Brigades">International Brigades</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a> bore his name. Rákosi was finally allowed to leave for the Soviet Union in 1940 in exchange for prized battle flags captured by Tsarist Russian forces after the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1848" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1848">Hungarian Revolution of 1848</a>. </p><p>As the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> drove the German <i><a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a></i> out of Hungary at the end of World War II, Rákosi returned to his home country in early 1945 and became the leader of the re-founded <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Communist_Party" title="Hungarian Communist Party">Hungarian Communist Party</a>. The party suffered a crushing defeat in <a href="/wiki/1945_Hungarian_parliamentary_election" title="1945 Hungarian parliamentary election">Hungary's postwar free election</a>, at the hands of the agrarian <a href="/wiki/Independent_Smallholders%27_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Smallholders' Party">Independent Smallholders' Party</a>; however, at Moscow's insistence the Communists received key positions in the government including the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Interior_Ministers_of_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Interior Ministers of Hungary">Interior Ministry</a>, while Rákosi himself became a heavily influential <a href="/wiki/Deputy_prime_minister" title="Deputy prime minister">deputy prime minister</a>. From this position, the Communists were able to use political intrigue, subterfuge, and <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy" title="Conspiracy">conspiracy</a> to destroy their opponents piece by piece, in what Rákosi would later term "<a href="/wiki/Salami_slicing_tactics_(politics)" title="Salami slicing tactics (politics)">salami tactics</a>". By 1948, they had gained total power over the country, and in 1949 the country was proclaimed a <a href="/wiki/People%27s_republic" title="People's republic">people's republic</a> with Rákosi as its absolute ruler. </p><p>Rákosi was an ardent <a href="/wiki/Stalinist" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalinist">Stalinist</a>, and his government was very loyal to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>; he even set up a <a href="/wiki/Personality_cult" class="mw-redirect" title="Personality cult">personality cult</a> of his own, modeled on that of Stalin. He presided over the mass imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungarian people">Hungarian people</a>, and the deaths of thousands.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He orchestrated <a href="/wiki/Show_trials" class="mw-redirect" title="Show trials">show trials</a> modeled on those of the USSR, among the most prominent victims of which was his former lieutenant <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Rajk" title="László Rajk">László Rajk</a>. His policies of <a href="/wiki/Collectivization" class="mw-redirect" title="Collectivization">collectivization</a> and mass <a href="/wiki/Political_repression" title="Political repression">repression</a> devastated the country's economy and political life, causing massive discontent. After the <a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Joseph_Stalin" title="Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin">death of Stalin</a> in 1953, Rákosi was partially demoted at Moscow's behest and the reformist Communist <a href="/wiki/Imre_Nagy" title="Imre Nagy">Imre Nagy</a> became the new prime minister; however, Rákosi was able to use his continuing influence as First Secretary to thwart all of Nagy's attempts at <a href="/wiki/Reform" title="Reform">reform</a> and ultimately force the latter out of office in 1955. </p><p>After Soviet leader <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>'s famous "<a href="/wiki/Secret_Speech" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret Speech">Secret Speech</a>" in early 1956 denouncing the crimes of Stalin, Rákosi found his position fatally compromised. Large numbers of people within the party and society at large began to speak out against him and call for his resignation, as information about the Party's past abuses came to light. Rákosi was finally forced to resign in July 1956 and leave for the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, replaced by his second-in-command <a href="/wiki/Ern%C5%91_Ger%C5%91" title="Ernő Gerő">Ernő Gerő</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1956">Hungarian Revolution of 1956</a> occurred barely three months later as a result of the abuses of Rákosi's system, and his former rival Imre Nagy became a dominant figure in the Revolution. Soviet troops ultimately crushed the uprising and installed a new Communist government under <a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_K%C3%A1d%C3%A1r" title="János Kádár">János Kádár</a>. </p><p>Rákosi lived out the rest of his life in exile in the Soviet Union, denied permission to return home by the Hungarian government, out of fear of mass unrest. He died in <a href="/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod" title="Nizhny Novgorod">Gorky</a> in 1971, and his ashes were returned to Hungary in secret. Rákosi is generally seen as a symbol of tyranny and oppression in Hungary.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Galileo_Circle" title="Galileo Circle">Galileo Circle</a></div> <p>Rákosi was born in <a href="/wiki/Ada_(Serbia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ada (Serbia)">Ada</a>, a village in <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A1cs-Bodrog_County" title="Bács-Bodrog County">Bács-Bodrog County</a><sup id="cite_ref-Gábor_Murányi_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gábor_Murányi-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary" title="Kingdom of Hungary">Kingdom of Hungary</a> (now a town in <a href="/wiki/Vojvodina" title="Vojvodina">Vojvodina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a>). Born to <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Hungary" title="History of the Jews in Hungary">Jewish</a> parents, the fourth son of József Rosenfeld, a grocer, his mother Cecília Léderer would give birth to seven more children.<sup id="cite_ref-Gábor_Murányi_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gábor_Murányi-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of his younger siblings the most notable was Ferenc Rákosi (later Biró, 1904–2006), an administrator, who also became active in Communist politics and was, for a time, General Manager of the <a href="/wiki/Manfr%C3%A9d_Weiss_Steel_and_Metal_Works" title="Manfréd Weiss Steel and Metal Works">Mátyás Rákosi Steel and Metal Works</a> during his brother's rule.<sup id="cite_ref-Szerelmes_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Szerelmes-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His other siblings were Béla (1886–1944), Jolán (1888–?), Matild Gizella (1890–?), Izabella (1895–?), Margit (1896–1932), Zoltán (1898–?), Mária (1902–1938), Dezső (1906–?) and Hajnal (1908–1944). József, Béla and Hajnal were killed during the <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Hungary" title="The Holocaust in Hungary">Holocaust</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rákosi's paternal grandfather participated in the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1848" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1848">Hungarian Revolution of 1848</a>; as a result, he had to flee the village following the defeat. Rákosi's father, József Rosenfeld, was called "<a href="/wiki/Lajos_Kossuth" title="Lajos Kossuth">Kossuth</a>'s Jew" by the villagers, because he had been a member and avid supporter of the oppositionist <a href="/wiki/Party_of_Independence_and_%2748" title="Party of Independence and '48">Party of Independence and '48</a>. He <a href="/wiki/Magyarization" title="Magyarization">changed his surname</a> Rosenfeld to Rákosi in 1903.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later repudiated religion and in common with most other <a href="/wiki/Marxist" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist">Marxists</a> described himself as an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a> and opponent of organised religion.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rákosi was a diligent and good student during his childhood.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He finished his elementary studies in <a href="/wiki/Sopron" title="Sopron">Sopron</a>, then took his final exam at the High Technical Gymnasium of <a href="/wiki/Szeged" title="Szeged">Szeged</a> in 1910. He then studied external trade at the Eastern Commerce Academy.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won scholarships for a year each in <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a> (1912) and <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> (1913).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>While still a student in Hungary, he joined the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Social_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungarian Social Democratic Party">Hungarian Social Democratic Party</a> (MSZDP) in 1910 and was also a secretary and active member of the <a href="/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism" title="Anarcho-syndicalism">anarcho-syndicalist</a> student movement, the <a href="/wiki/Galileo_Circle" title="Galileo Circle">Galilei Circle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He served in the <a href="/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Army" title="Austro-Hungarian Army">Austro-Hungarian Army</a> during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">First World War</a> and was captured on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(WWI)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Front (WWI)">Eastern Front</a> in 1915 and held as a prisoner-of-war in Far Eastern POW camps by the Russians until the end of the war. Taking advantage of the chaotic situation in Russia, he successfully escaped from his detention and moved to Petrograd, centre of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Bolshevik Revolution</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_career">Early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi_in_1919.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi_in_1919.jpg/220px-M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi_in_1919.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="291" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi_in_1919.jpg/330px-M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi_in_1919.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi_in_1919.jpg/440px-M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi_in_1919.jpg 2x" data-file-width="721" data-file-height="954" /></a><figcaption>Mátyás Rákosi in 1919</figcaption></figure> <p>After returning to Hungary, he participated in the communist movement of <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Kun" title="Béla Kun">Béla Kun</a> and also joined the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Communist_Party" title="Hungarian Communist Party">Party of Communists in Hungary</a>. During the short-lived 133-day Communist rule after the resignation of President <a href="/wiki/Mih%C3%A1ly_K%C3%A1rolyi" title="Mihály Károlyi">Mihály Károlyi</a>, when the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Soviet_Republic" title="Hungarian Soviet Republic">Hungarian Soviet Republic</a> was established, Rákosi served as Deputy People's Commissar for Trade from 21 March to 3 April in the Revolutionary Governing Council led by <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_Garbai" title="Sándor Garbai">Sándor Garbai</a>. Between 3 April and 24 June 1919, Rákosi was one of the six people's commissars for social production, alongside <a href="/wiki/Eugen_Varga" title="Eugen Varga">Jenő Varga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antal_Dovcs%C3%A1k" title="Antal Dovcsák">Antal Dovcsák</a>, Gyula Hevesi, <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_Kelen" title="József Kelen">József Kelen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Baj%C3%A1ki" title="Ferenc Bajáki">Ferenc Bajáki</a>. He was also involved in the Hungarian Red Army's Northern and Eastern military campaigns against the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Romania</a>. At the end of July 1919, he was promoted to Commander of the internal law-enforcement Red Guard for a short time. Following the Soviet Republic's fall, Rákosi fled Hungary on 2 August 1919 via the Austrian border, eventually to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> where he worked as part of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_International" title="Communist International">Communist International</a>, including representing it at the <a href="/wiki/Livorno_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="Livorno Congress">Livorno Congress</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Socialist_Party" title="Italian Socialist Party">Italian Socialist Party</a> in 1921.<sup id="cite_ref-fern16_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fern16-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After returning to <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary_(Regency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Hungary (Regency)">Hungary</a> in 1924, he was imprisoned, but he was released to the Soviet Union in 1940, in exchange for the Hungarian revolutionary banners captured by Russian troops <a href="/wiki/Surrender_at_Vil%C3%A1gos" title="Surrender at Világos">at Világos</a> in 1849.<sup id="cite_ref-Mátyás_Rákosi_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mátyás_Rákosi-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, he became leader of the <a href="/wiki/Comintern" class="mw-redirect" title="Comintern">Comintern</a>. In 1942, he married divorced lawyer Feodora (Fenia) Kornilova, a woman of <a href="/wiki/Yakuts" title="Yakuts">Yakut</a> origin. He returned to <a href="/wiki/Debrecen" title="Debrecen">Debrecen</a>, Hungary, on 30 January 1945, having been selected by the Soviet authorities to organise the Hungarian Communist Party.<sup id="cite_ref-Mátyás_Rákosi_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mátyás_Rákosi-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leader_of_Hungary">Leader of Hungary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Leader of Hungary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi" title="Special:EditPage/Mátyás Rákosi">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. 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He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/High_National_Council" title="High National Council">High National Council</a> from 27 September to 7 December 1945. Rákosi was deputy prime minister from 1945 to 1949, and was acting <a href="/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Prime Ministers of Hungary">prime minister</a> from 1 to 4 February 1946 and on 31 May 1947. </p><p>Initially, Rákosi and the Communists appeared willing to work within the system. From 1947 onwards, however, he and the Communists began pressuring the other parties to exclude those not willing to work with the Communists on the grounds that they were "fascists" or fascist sympathisers. Later on, after the Communists won complete control, it was commonly believed that Rákosi referred to this practice as "<a href="/wiki/Salami_tactics" class="mw-redirect" title="Salami tactics">salami tactics</a>," saying he had destroyed the non-Communist forces in the country by "cutting them off like slices of salami." However, no verified source for the "salami" quote has ever been discovered. According to historian <a href="/wiki/Norman_Stone" title="Norman Stone">Norman Stone</a>, the term might have been invented by the leader of the Hungarian Independence Party, Zoltán Pfeiffer.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The process began when <a href="/wiki/Independent_Smallholders,_Agrarian_Workers_and_Civic_Party" title="Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party">Smallholder</a> Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Nagy" title="Ferenc Nagy">Ferenc Nagy</a> was forced to resign in favour of a more pliant Smallholder, <a href="/wiki/Lajos_Dinny%C3%A9s" title="Lajos Dinnyés">Lajos Dinnyés</a>. By <a href="/wiki/1947_Hungarian_parliamentary_election" title="1947 Hungarian parliamentary election">the 1947 elections</a>, the Communists had won a plurality, and had largely emasculated the next-largest non-Communist Party, the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(Hungary)" title="Social Democratic Party (Hungary)">Social Democrats</a>. </p><p>By October 1947, Rákosi had dropped all pretense of liberal democracy. He gave the non-Communist parties an ultimatum: cooperate with a new, Communist-dominated coalition government or go into exile.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of 1947, the opposition parties had largely shunted aside their more courageous members, leaving them in the hands of <a href="/wiki/Fellow_traveller" title="Fellow traveller">fellow travellers</a> willing to do the Communists' bidding. In the summer of 1948, the Communists forced the Social Democrats to merge with them to form the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Working_People%27s_Party" title="Hungarian Working People's Party">Hungarian Working People's Party</a> (MDP). However, the few remaining independent-minded Social Democrats were quickly pushed out in short order, leaving the MDP as an enlarged and renamed MKP. </p><p>He also pushed out the Smallholder president, <a href="/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Tildy" title="Zoltán Tildy">Zoltán Tildy</a>, in favour of Social Democrat-turned-Communist <a href="/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_Szakasits" title="Árpád Szakasits">Árpád Szakasits</a>, and forced Dinnyés to resign in favour of the openly pro-Communist <a href="/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Dobi" title="István Dobi">István Dobi</a>. A year later, <a href="/wiki/1949_Hungarian_parliamentary_election" title="1949 Hungarian parliamentary election">elections</a> took place with a single list of candidates. Although non-Communists nominally still figured, in reality they were fellow travellers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Rákosi described himself as "<a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Stalin</a>'s best Hungarian disciple" and "Stalin's best pupil".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> At the height of his rule, he developed a strong <a href="/wiki/Cult_of_personality" title="Cult of personality">cult of personality</a> around himself.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Approximately 350,000 officials and intellectuals were purged under his rule, from 1948 to 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rákosi imposed totalitarian rule on Hungary — arresting, jailing and killing both real and imagined foes in various waves of Stalin-inspired <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Rajk" title="László Rajk">political purges</a>. In August 1952, he also became Prime Minister (Chairman of the Council of Ministers). </p><p>However, in June 1953, Rákosi and other party leaders were summoned to Moscow, where the Soviet leadership dressed down their Hungarian counterparts for Hungary's lackluster economic performance.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 13 June 1953, to appease the <a href="/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Soviet Politburo</a>, Rákosi accepted the Soviet model of collective leadership. While he gave up the premiership to <a href="/wiki/Imre_Nagy" title="Imre Nagy">Imre Nagy</a>, he retained the office of General Secretary. Nagy favoured a more humane way of governing, which Rákosi vigorously opposed.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> On 9 March 1955, the Central Committee of the MDP condemned Nagy for "rightist deviation." Hungarian newspapers joined the attacks and Nagy was blamed for the country's economic problems. On 18 April, the National Assembly unanimously sacked Nagy from his post. Although the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Kremlin" class="mw-redirect" title="Moscow Kremlin">Kremlin</a> frowned on a return of Rákosi to the premiership, he and Nagy's successor, <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A1s_Heged%C3%BCs" title="András Hegedüs">András Hegedüs</a>, quickly put the country back on its previous Stalinist course. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_policy">Economic policy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s_R%C3%A1kosi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Economic policy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R83531,_Budapest,_II._Weltfestspiele,_Festumzug,_Ehrentrib%C3%BCne.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R83531%2C_Budapest%2C_II._Weltfestspiele%2C_Festumzug%2C_Ehrentrib%C3%BCne.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R83531%2C_Budapest%2C_II._Weltfestspiele%2C_Festumzug%2C_Ehrentrib%C3%BCne.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R83531%2C_Budapest%2C_II._Weltfestspiele%2C_Festumzug%2C_Ehrentrib%C3%BCne.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R83531%2C_Budapest%2C_II._Weltfestspiele%2C_Festumzug%2C_Ehrentrib%C3%BCne.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R83531%2C_Budapest%2C_II._Weltfestspiele%2C_Festumzug%2C_Ehrentrib%C3%BCne.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R83531%2C_Budapest%2C_II._Weltfestspiele%2C_Festumzug%2C_Ehrentrib%C3%BCne.jpg 2x" data-file-width="786" data-file-height="526" /></a><figcaption>Rákosi during the <a href="/wiki/2nd_World_Festival_of_Youth_and_Students" title="2nd World Festival of Youth and Students">2nd World Festival of Youth and Students</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The post-war Hungarian economy suffered from multiple challenges. The most important was the destruction of infrastructure in the war (40% of national wealth, including all bridges, railways, raw materials, machinery, etc.).<sup id="cite_ref-Pető-Szakács_1985_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pető-Szakács_1985-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hungary agreed to pay war reparations totalling approximately US$300 million, to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, <a href="/wiki/Communist_Czechoslovakia" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communist_Yugoslavia" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, and to support Soviet garrisons.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_National_Bank" title="Hungarian National Bank">Hungarian National Bank</a> in 1946 estimated the cost of reparations as "between 19 and 22 percent of the annual national income." In spite of this, after the <a href="/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyperinflation in Hungary">highest historical rate of inflation</a> in world history, a <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_forint" title="Hungarian forint">new, stable currency</a> was successfully introduced in August 1946 on the basis of the plans of the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party. The low production of consumer goods and the backwardness of light industry resulted in frequent shortages, especially in the countryside, leading to discontent. In addition, the huge investments in military sectors after the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> further reduced the supply of consumer goods. Due to shortages, forced savings (state bond sales to the population) and below-inflation wage increases were introduced.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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To remove him from the Hungarian political scene, the Soviet Politburo exiled Rákosi to the Soviet Union later in 1956, with the official story being that he was "seeking medical attention". From 1964 to 1968 he lived in the town of <a href="/wiki/Tokmok" title="Tokmok">Tokmok</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kirghiz_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic">Soviet Kirghizia</a>. Later he was sent to <a href="/wiki/Arzamas" title="Arzamas">Arzamas</a> and, later still, to <a href="/wiki/Nizhny_Novgorod" title="Nizhny Novgorod">Gorky</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1970, Rákosi was finally granted permission to return to Hungary if he promised not to engage in political activities. He refused the deal and remained in the USSR where he died in Gorky in 1971. After his death, his ashes were privately returned to Hungary for burial in the <a href="/wiki/Farkasr%C3%A9ti_Cemetery" title="Farkasréti Cemetery">Farkasréti Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Budapest" title="Budapest">Budapest</a>. Only his initials are visible on his gravestone to avoid vandalism.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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I. köt. Budapest, 1985, KJK</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">"Ракоши, Матьяш" [Rákosi Mátyás]. <i>Encyclopedia of Chüy Oblast</i> (in Kyrgyz and Russian). 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Central European University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-963-386-192-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-963-386-192-9"><bdi>978-963-386-192-9</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctt1zqrmzm">10.7829/j.ctt1zqrmzm</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Invisible+Shining&rft.pub=Central+European+University+Press&rft.date=2017&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F10.7829%2Fj.ctt1zqrmzm%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.isbn=978-963-386-192-9&rft.aulast=Apor&rft.aufirst=Bal%C3%A1zs&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AM%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s+R%C3%A1kosi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMartin_Mevius2011" class="citation journal cs1">Martin Mevius (2011). "A Crown for Ráákosi: The Vogeler Case, the Holy Crown of St Stephen, and the (Inter)national Legitimacy of the Hungarian Communist Regime, 1945––1978". <i>The Slavonic and East European Review</i>. <b>89</b> (1): 76. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5699%2Fslaveasteurorev2.89.1.0076">10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.89.1.0076</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Slavonic+and+East+European+Review&rft.atitle=A+Crown+for+R%C3%A1%C3%A1kosi%3A+The+Vogeler+Case%2C+the+Holy+Crown+of+St+Stephen%2C+and+the+%28Inter%29national+Legitimacy+of+the+Hungarian+Communist+Regime%2C+1945%E2%80%93%E2%80%931978&rft.volume=89&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=76&rft.date=2011&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.5699%2Fslaveasteurorev2.89.1.0076&rft.au=Martin+Mevius&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AM%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s+R%C3%A1kosi" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSebestyen2006" class="citation book cs1">Sebestyen, Victor (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/twelvedaysstoryo00sebe/page/340"><i>Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution</i></a>. New York: Pantheon. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/twelvedaysstoryo00sebe/page/340">340</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-42458-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-42458-X"><bdi>0-375-42458-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Twelve+Days%3A+The+Story+of+the+1956+Hungarian+Revolution&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=340&rft.pub=Pantheon&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=0-375-42458-X&rft.aulast=Sebestyen&rft.aufirst=Victor&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftwelvedaysstoryo00sebe%2Fpage%2F340&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AM%C3%A1ty%C3%A1s+R%C3%A1kosi" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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href="/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Hungary#General_Secretary_of_the_Hungarian_Working_People's_Party_/_Hungarian_Socialist_Workers'_Party" title="List of heads of state of Hungary">General Secretary of the<br />Hungarian Communist Party</a> </b><br />23 February 1945–12 June 1948 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold">—</div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">—</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Hungary#General_Secretary_of_the_Hungarian_Working_People's_Party_/_Hungarian_Socialist_Workers'_Party" title="List of heads of state of Hungary">General Secretary of the<br />Hungarian Working People's Party</a> </b><br />12 June 1948–18 July 1956 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ern%C5%91_Ger%C5%91" title="Ernő Gerő">Ernő Gerő</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold">position established</div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Minister of State<br /><small>alongside others</small> </b><br />15 November 1945–5 September 1949 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ern%C5%91_Ger%C5%91" title="Ernő Gerő">Ernő Gerő</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jen%C5%91_Sz%C3%B6ll%C5%91si&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jenő Szöllősi (page does not exist)">Jenő Szöllősi</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary<br /><small>alongside <a href="/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_Szakasits" title="Árpád Szakasits">Árpád Szakasits</a> (1946–1948)</small> </b><br />4 February 1946–14 August 1952 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ern%C5%91_Ger%C5%91" title="Ernő Gerő">Ernő Gerő</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Imre_Nagy" title="Imre Nagy">Imre Nagy</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Hidas" title="István Hidas">István Hidas</a><br /><a href="/wiki/K%C3%A1roly_Kiss" title="Károly Kiss">Károly Kiss</a><br /><a href="/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_H%C3%A1zi" title="Árpád Házi">Árpád Házi</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Dobi" title="István Dobi">István Dobi</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Hungary" title="Prime Minister 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