Hungarian foreign policy towards Africa during communism and in the post-Soviet era

Twentieth Century Communism - ISSN 1758-6437
Volume 2018 Number 15

Hungarian foreign policy towards Africa during communism and in the post-Soviet era
Istvan Tarrosy pages -

Abstract

During the communist era (1949-1989) Hungary experienced a number of different kinds of one-party rule, and the period therefore needs to be analysed in three stages. The first period can be characterised as totalitarian dictatorship, classical Stalinism – which
began developing from the late 1940s and lasted until 1963. During these decades, the Communist Party, which was re-organised in November 1944, ‘proclaimed itself the exclusive repository of all social interests’. Under Stalin’s favoured local leader, Mátyás Rákosi,
the Hungarian people were put under the strict control of the party, and every walk of life was scrutinised, which soon created a society in which people withdrew into their shells. The second stage was triggered by the 1956 uprising, which gave the signal that people
rejected Rákosi’s rule and Soviet-style totalitarianism; although the uprising failed, it contributed to a fundamental change in the long run. The second phase, in particular in the 1970s, was determined by less political control and a growing distance from the ideological
legitimacy of the Rákosi regime. János Kádár, who became prime minister after the uprising was suppressed, wanted to ‘consolidate’ the country after 1956, and increasingly allowed the private sector space in society, both in economic and cultural terms.

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Istvan Tarrosy (2018) Hungarian foreign policy towards Africa during communism and in the post-Soviet era, Twentieth Century Communism, 2018(15), -

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