- The native form of this personal name is Nagy Imre. A personal name is the Proper name identifying an individual Person. This article uses the Western name order. A personal name is the Proper name identifying an individual Person.
Imre Nagy (June 7, 1896 – June 16, 1958) was a Hungarian politician, appointed Prime Minister of Hungary on two occasions. Events 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic List of Heads of Government of Hungary (1848-Present Hungarian Revolution of 1848 Prime Ministers Count Lajos Batthyány Nagy's second term ended when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down by Soviet invasion in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, resulting in Nagy's execution on charges of treason two years later. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ( Hungarian: 1956-os forradalom) was a spontaneous nationwide Revolt against the Stalinist government of
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Career
Nagy (pronounced [ˈnɒɟ]) was born in Kaposvár, to a peasant family and was apprenticed to a locksmith. Kaposvár ( Croatian: Kapošvar Kapuš(ar Kapušvar, German: Kopisch Ruppertsberg Ruppertsburg, Turkish: Kapoşvar He enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and served on the Eastern Front. The Austro-Hungarian Army was the ground force of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy (1867 - 1918 World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The Eastern Front was a theatre of war during World War I in Central and primarily Eastern Europe. He was taken prisoner in 1915. He became a member of the Russian Communist Party, and joined the Red Army. A Political party described as a communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of Communism through a communist form of The Red Army ( Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия R aboche- K rest'yanskaya K rasnaya A rmiya Nagy returned to Hungary in 1921. Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar In 1930 he travelled to the Soviet Union and joined the communist party. Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 A Political party described as a communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of Communism through a communist form of He was engaged in agricultural research, and also worked in the Hungarian section of the Comintern. The Comintern ( Com munist Intern ational also known as the Third International) was an international Communist organisation founded in Moscow He was expelled from the party in 1936 and later worked for the Soviet Statistical Service. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Rumours that he was an agent of the Soviet secret service surfaced later, begun by Hungarian party-leader Károly Grósz in 1989 in an attempt to discredit Nagy. Károly Grósz ( August 1 1930 - January 7 1996) was a Hungarian communist politician Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) [1] There is evidence, however, that Nagy did serve as an informant for the NKVD during his time in Moscow and provided names to the secret police as a way to prove his loyalty (not an uncommon tactic for foreign communists in the Soviet Union at the time). The NKVD ( НКВД, ru Народный Комиссариат Внутренних Дел ''Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del'') or People's Commissariat [2]
After the war Nagy returned to Hungary and served in the Communist government, as Minister of Agriculture and in other posts. Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic He was also Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary 1947-1949. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
After two years as Prime Minister (1953–1955), during which he promoted his "New Course" in Socialism, Nagy fell out of favour with the Soviet Politburo. He was deprived of his Hungarian Central Committee, Politburo and all other Party functions and on April 18, 1955, he was sacked as Prime Minister. Events 1025 - Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar)
Nagy became Prime Minister again, this time by popular demand, during the anti-Soviet revolution in 1956. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ( Hungarian: 1956-os forradalom) was a spontaneous nationwide Revolt against the Stalinist government of Soon he moved toward a multiparty political system.
On 1 November, he announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and appealed through the UN for the great powers, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, to recognize Hungary's status as a neutral state. Events 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk Bishop of Freising which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi The Warsaw Pact (see Nomenclature) was an organization of Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. [3] Even in this period, Nagy remained steadfastly committed to Marxism; but his conception of Marxism was as "a science that cannot remain static", and he railed against the "rigid dogmatism" of "the Stalinist monopoly". [4]
When the revolution was crushed by the Soviet invasion of Hungary, Nagy, with a few others, was given sanctuary in the Yugoslav Embassy. The Serbian Embassy in Budapest (Амбасада Србије у Будимпешти is Serbia 's diplomatic mission to Hungary. In spite of a written safe conduct of free passage by János Kádár, on 22 November, Nagy was arrested by the Soviet forces as he was leaving the Yugoslav Embassy, and taken to Snagov, Romania. János Kádár, né Giovanni Czermanik (his Italian first name was due to the laws of Fiume, his father the soldier János Kressinger denied paternity and refused Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Snagov (population 6041 is a commune, located 40 km north of Bucharest in Ilfov County, Romania. Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania Subsequently, the Soviets returned him to Hungary, where he was secretly charged with organizing to overthrow the Hungarian people's democratic state and with treason. Nagy was secretly tried, found guilty, sentenced to death and executed by hanging in June, 1958. [5] His trial and execution were made public only after the sentence was carried out. [6] According to Fedor Burlatsky, a Kremlin insider, Nikita Khrushchev had Nagy executed, "as a lesson to all other leaders in socialist countries. View01jpg|thumb|right|250px|Remains of the Kolomna Kremlin]] Kremlin (Кремль Kreml) is the Russian word for "fortress" "citadel" or "castle" Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (April 17 1894 – September 11 1971 served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 following "[7]
He was buried along with others in a distant corner (section 301) of the Kozma Street Cemetery [8] Municipal Cemetery outside Budapest. The Kozma street cemetery in Budapest is noted for its unusual monuments and mausoleums Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political,
During the time when the Communist leadership of Hungary would not permit his death to be commemorated, or permit access to his burial place, a cenotaph in his honor was erected in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. A cenotaph is a tomb or a Monument erected in honour of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery" is the largest Cemetery in the city of Paris Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city In 1989, Imre Nagy was rehabilitated and his remains reburied in the same plot after a funeral organized in part by opponents of the country's communist regime. [9] Over 100,000 people are estimated to have attended Nagy's reinternment.
The collected writings of Nagy, most of which he wrote after his dismissal as Prime Minister in April 1955, were smuggled out of Hungary and published in the West under the title "Imre Nagy on Communism".
Nagy was married to Mária Égető. The couple had one daughter, Erzsébet Nagy (1927-2008), a Hungarian writer and translator. Erzsébet Nagy ( April 13, 1927 - January 29, 2008) was a Hungarian Writer and the only daughter of the former Prime Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text likewise called a " translation [10] Erzsébet Nagy married Ferenc Jánosi. Imre Nagy did not object to his daughter's romance and eventual marriage to a Protestant minister, attending their religious wedding ceremony in 1946 without Politburo permission. In 1982, Erzsébet Nagy married János Vészi. [11]
Nagy in film and the arts
In 2003 and 2004, the Hungarian director Márta Mészáros produced a film based on Nagy's life after the revolution, entitled A Temetetlen halott (English: The Unburied Dead) (IMDb entry). Márta Mészáros (born September 19, 1931 in Kispest, Hungary) is a Hungarian Film director.
Imre Nagy home in Budapest
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References
- ^ János Rainer: Nagy Imre, (Budapest, 2002), 26.
- ^ Gati, Charles (2006). Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt, p. 42. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-5606-6.
- ^ Gyorgy Litvan, The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, (Longman House: New York, 1996), 55–59
- ^ Stokes, Gale. From Stalinism to Pluralism. p. 82-3
- ^ Richard Solash, "Hungary: U.S. President To Honor 1956 Uprising", Radio Free Europe, June 20, 2006
- ^ The Counter-revolutionary Conspiracy of Imre Nagy and his Accomplices White Book, published by the Information Bureau of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic (No date). This article is about the radio broadcast service For the REM Events 451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius ' defeats Attila the Hun. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
- ^ David Pryce-Jones, "What the Hungarians wrought: the meaning of October 1956", National Review, October 23, 2006
- ^ Budapest Journal; The Lasting Pain of '56: Can the Past Be Reburied? - New York Times
- ^ Hungarian Who Led '56 Revolt Is Buried as a Hero - New York Times
- ^ "Erzsebet Nagy, only child of Hungary's 1956 revolution prime minister Imre Nagy, dies", Associated Press, PR-inside. David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones (b 15 February 1936 Vienna, Austria) is a conservative British author and commentator National Review ( NR) is a biweekly Magazine and Web site, founded by the late author William F Events 4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher 42 BC - Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio com, 2008-01-29. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed Antipope Christopher. Retrieved on 2008-02-14. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 842 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German
- ^ Gati, Charles (2006). Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt, p. 42. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-5606-6.
Further reading
- Gyula Háy [ Hay, Julius ]. Gyula Háy ( Julius Hay) ( May 5, 1900 – May 7, 1975) was a Hungarian communist intellectual and playwright Gyula Háy ( Julius Hay) ( May 5, 1900 – May 7, 1975) was a Hungarian communist intellectual and playwright Born 1900: memoirs. Hutchinson: 1974.
- Granville, Joanna. "Imre Nagy, aka "Volodya" – a dent in the martyr's halo?" Cold War International History Project Bulletin 5 (1995): 28, 34–36.
- KGB Chief Vladimir Kryuchkov to CC CPSU, 16 June 1989 (trans. Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov ( Russian: Владимир Александрович Крючков) ( 29 February 1924 &ndash 23 November Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Joanna Granville). Cold War International History Project Bulletin 5 (1995): 36 [from: TsKhSD, F. The Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI (Российский государственный архив новейшей итории (РГАНИ is a large Russian 89, Per. 45, Dok. 82. ]
- Alajos Dornbach, The Secret Trial of Imre Nagy, Greenwood Press, 1995. ISBN 0-275-94332-1
- Peter Unwin, Voice in the Wilderness: Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution, Little, Brown, 1991. ISBN 0-356-20316-6
| Preceded by Mátyás Rákosi |
Prime Minister of Hungary 1953–1955 |
Succeeded by András Hegedűs |
| Preceded by András Hegedűs |
Prime Minister of Hungary 1956 |
Succeeded by János Kádár |
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